coxa
/ˈkɑksə/noun
coxa is spelled C-O-X-A: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, coxa means “The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of coxa is coxae.
How many letters and syllables are in coxa?
| Letters | 4: C-O-X-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is coxa?
Coxa appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce coxa?
- UK /ˈkɒksə/
- US /ˈkɑksə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-coxa.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with coxa?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as coxa from its last stressed vowel (/ɑksə/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: coax.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of coxa
- coxae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does coxa mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Coxa in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense basal segment of some arthropods’ limbs:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does coxa come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin coxa, from Proto-Italic *koksā, from Proto-Indo-European *kóḱseh₂, from *koḱs- (“joint, limb”) + *-eh₂. Doublet of cuisse.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).