vinca
noun
vinca is a noun meaning “Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N-C-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vinca is vincas.
What does vinca mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca, including the periwinkle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vinca?
Vinca 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).
Forms of vinca
- vincas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vinca?
Vinca appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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 vinca come from?
Borrowed from New Latin Vinca, a back-formation from Latin pervinca.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).