coca

Other forms of coca

plural

cocas·

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 coca

What does coca mean?

coca means "a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coca?

coca has 2 syllables: co-ca. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊkə/.

What is another word for coca?

Close synonyms include Erythroxylon coca, coca plant, Imogene Coca. 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 coca a common word?

coca is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.