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kwacha

noun

kwacha is a noun meaning “Malawi's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 tambala” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-W-A-C-H-A, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kwacha is kwachas.

What does kwacha mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Malawi's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 tambala.

  2. 2

    Zambia's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 ngwee.

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

Forms of kwacha

  • kwachas plural

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

How common is kwacha?

Kwacha appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 kwacha come from?

Borrowed from Chichewa kwacha (“it has dawned”).

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