mocha
/ˈmoʊkə/
"mocha" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mocha” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #29,748 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #29,748
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mocha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmoʊkə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mocha” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for mocha is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmoʊkə/. Corpus data places it at rank #29,748 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mocha, with forms such as "mcoha", "mmocha", and "mocah". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moh", "much", "mock", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule. The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or… The correct English form is mocha, spelled M-O-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
- 2A flavour that combines coffee and chocolate.
- 3A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
- 4A strong Arabian coffee.
- 5Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
- 6An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
Etymology
From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule. The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mcoha,mmocha,mocah,moccha,mochha,mohca,omcha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mocha - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mocha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-C-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmoʊkə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “moh” - see the side-by-side comparison. mocha vs moh
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.