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coca

/ˈkoʊ.kə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.64 in modern English

Syllables
co-ca
IPA
/ˈkoʊ.kə/
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

Uncountable

noun

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

Uncountable

noun

A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.

name

Acronym of Corpus of Contemporary American English.

name

A surname.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A river (the Coca River) in Ecuador, a tributary of the Napo.

Countable; Uncountable

name

Synonym of Puerto Francisco de Orellana (El Coca), Ecuador.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: coca, kuka, -

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈkoʊ.kə/
  • British English: /ˈkəʊ.kə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

cocas (plural)

Derived Forms

anticoca cocaethylene cocain cocaine

Phrases

Coca-Cola coca paste coca wine

Frequently Paired Words

COHA

Synonyms

Puerto Francisco de Orellana erythroxylon coca coca plant

Rhymes With

boca mocha rocha fukuoka loca oka roca moca shizuoka moka yoshioka matsuoka

Questions

How do you pronounce coca?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkoʊ.kə/.
What does coca mean?
Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
Where does coca come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

How to pronounce coca

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