inca

1. 1.

   a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)

   Broaderruler

   NarrowerHuayna Capac
2. 2.

   a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru

   SynonymsInkaIncan

   BroaderQuechua
3. 3.

   the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

   SynonymsInka

   Broadercommunity

   Peru

Other forms of inca

plural

incas·

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 inca

What does inca mean?

inca means "a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inca?

inca has 2 syllables: in-ca. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪŋkə/.

What is another word for inca?

Close synonyms include Inka, Incan, Inka. 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 inca a common word?

inca 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.