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nakoda

noun

nakoda is spelled N-A-K-O-D-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nakoda means “Alternative form of nakhoda” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nakoda is nakodas.

How many letters and syllables are in nakoda?

Letters6: N-A-K-O-D-A
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th 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 nakoda?

Nakoda appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 nakoda

  • nakodas plural

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

What does nakoda mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of nakhoda.

noun

as Nakoda
  1. 1

    An indigenous people of Western Canada and, originally, the United States, formerly inhabiting large parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana.

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

Where does nakoda come from?

Borrowed from Dakota dakhóta (“ally”).

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

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