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Khoja

noun

Khoja is spelled K-H-O-J-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Khoja means “A member of a Gujarati-speaking Shiite sect who take the Aga Khan as their religious head” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Khoja is Khojas.

How many letters and syllables are in Khoja?

Letters5: K-H-O-J-A
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 154,067th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is Khoja?

Khoja appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th 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).

Forms of Khoja

  • Khojas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Khoja mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A member of a Gujarati-speaking Shiite sect who take the Aga Khan as their religious head.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does Khoja come from?

Borrowed from Gujarati ખોજા (khojā), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja), ultimately from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya). Doublet of Ojha, hodja, Hoxha, and Upadhyaya.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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