ocha
"ocha" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ocha” is uncommon English (frequency #82,610 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,610
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Japanese tea, usually green tea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ocha · ocha · English
ocha · rank #82,610 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,610
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH ObGyn
Nearest frequency peer: ObGyn (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “ocha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nonplussed
nonplussed
17,403 corpus weight
- Nootka
Nootka
17,402 corpus weight
- nucleon
nucleon
17,400 corpus weight
- numismatics
numismatics
17,399 corpus weight
- ObGyn
ObGyn
17,393 corpus weight
- ocha
ocha
17,391 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ocha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ocha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ocha is uncommon English at frequency #82,610 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Japanese tea, usually green tea.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ocha in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese お茶 (ocha), from 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”), from Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae), whence English cha. The correct English form is ocha, spelled O-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Japanese tea, usually green tea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ocha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Right now I am drinking ocha and listening to the rain whipping across the windowpanes.
In the winters, they would sit together in the tiny attic space that the old man had been occupying in the house for the past 25 years and drink hot ocha as Rakesh-7 wove together seemingly simple threads into complex and detailed narrations […]
Etymology
From Japanese お茶 (ocha), from 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”), from Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae), whence English cha.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).