# coca

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkəʊ.kə/ · frequency rank #12,206

## Definitions
1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

## Easily confused with
- **cop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cop)
- **con** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-con)
- **cow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cow)
- **cos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cos)
- **col** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-col)
- **cox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cox)
- **cod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cod)
- **cor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cor)
- **coo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-coo)
- **CPA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cpa)
- **cot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cot)
- **CPC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cpc)
- **Coe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-coe)
- **coz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-coz)
- **CSA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-csa)
- **coy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-coy)
- **cog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cog)
- **CTA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cta)
- **Cov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-cov)
- **CTC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-ctc)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ccoa`, `ccoca`, `coac`, `cocca`, `occa`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/coca