napa
noun
napa is spelled N-A-P-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, napa means “Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of napa is napas.
How many letters and syllables are in napa?
| Letters | 4: N-A-P-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is napa?
Napa appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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).
How do you pronounce napa?
- US
Napa has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-napa.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with napa
Also written: nappa.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with napa?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as napa.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: paan, apan.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of napa
- napas plural
- nappa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does napa mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.
- 2
napa leather
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does napa come from?
From the regional and colloquial Japanese term 菜っ葉 (nappa, “leaves of any vegetable”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).