coca
Portuguese, noun
coca is spelled C-O-C-A (4 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,502nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, coça is a different word: “beating, spanking”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arbusto frondoso sul-americano da família Erythroxylaceae, seu nome científico é Erythroxylum coca; de suas…”.
What does coca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecoca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
- 2
femininecoca (dried leaf of Erythroxylum coca)
- 3
feminineslangcoke (cocaine)
noun
- 1
feminineinformalCoke (cola-based soft drink)
noun
- 1
femininebeating, spanking
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arbusto frondoso sul-americano da família Erythroxylaceae, seu nome científico é Erythroxylum coca; de suas folhas e casca se extraem vários alcaloides, dos quais o mais importante é a cocaína 2. abreviatura de cocaína
noun: 1. ato de cocar; espreitar
noun: 1. cada uma das células ocas de um pericarpo
noun: 1. teia de aranha cheia de pó
noun: 1. fedor, mau cheiro 2. ferimento 3. ódio, raiva
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of coca
- cocas plural
- coquinha diminutive
- cocão augmentative masculine
- cocona augmentative
- coças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to coca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coca in Portuguese?
coca appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).