orca

Other forms of orca

plural

orcas·

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 orca

What does orca mean?

orca means "predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas".

How many syllables are in orca?

orca has 2 syllables: or-ca. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹkə/.

What is another word for orca?

Close synonyms include killer whale, killer, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca. 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 orca a common word?

orca 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.

What rhymes with orca?

1 word rhymes with orca. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.