deca
/ˈdɛkə/noun
deca is spelled D-E-C-A: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, deca means “The anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of deca is decas.
How many letters and syllables are in deca?
| Letters | 4: D-E-C-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 51,129th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 deca?
Deca appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th 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 deca?
- /ˈdɛkə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-deca-.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with deca?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as deca.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cade, aced, dace, ecad.
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 deca
- decas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does deca mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangThe anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate.
- 2
Clipping of decathlon.
noun
- 1
Acronym of DirecTV ethernet-over-coaxial adapter, a device created by DirecTV that allows for the running ethernet over RG59 and RG6 coax cabling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Deca in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ten:
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 deca come from?
From deca-, from Latin decas (“ten”), from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás, “10”). Sense 1 is a clipping of decanoate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).