cacao

Other forms of cacao

plural

cacaos·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cacao

What does cacao mean?

cacao means "tropical American tree producing cacao beans".

How many syllables are in cacao?

cacao has 3 syllables: ca-ca-o. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /kəˈkeɪoʊ/.

What is another word for cacao?

Close synonyms include cacao tree, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cacao a common word?

cacao is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.