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kokum

noun

kokum is a noun meaning “A plant (Garcinia indica) in the mangosteen family with culinary, pharmaceutical, and industrial uses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-K-U-M, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does kokum mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A plant (Garcinia indica) in the mangosteen family with culinary, pharmaceutical, and industrial uses.

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

Forms of kokum

  • kokam
  • kokan

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

How common is kokum?

Kokum appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).

Where does kokum come from?

From Gujarati કોકમ (kokam) and Marathi कोकम (kokam).

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