cocoa

Other forms of cocoa

plural

cocoas·

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 cocoa

What does cocoa mean?

cocoa means "a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cocoa?

cocoa has 2 syllables: co-coa. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊkoʊ/.

What is another word for cocoa?

Close synonyms include chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate. 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 cocoa a common word?

cocoa 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.