goa
/ˈɡoʊə/noun
goa is spelled G-O-A: 3 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, goa means “A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of goa is goas.
How many letters and syllables are in goa?
| Letters | 3: G-O-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,122nd 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 goa?
Goa appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,122nd 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 goa?
- US /ˈɡoʊə/
Goa has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sumxr-Goa.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with goa?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as goa from its last stressed vowel (/oʊə/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ago, gao, oga.
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 goa
- goas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does goa mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.
noun
- 1
A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
phrase
- 1
USInitialism of gone on arrival (“where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does goa come from?
Unknown, possibly from Tibetan [script needed] (dgoba).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).