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coco¹

  • /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/ US

Sounds like cocoa · Rhymes with -əʊkəʊ

Where it comes from

From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.

noun cocos · cocoes · cocoa

  1. Coconut palm. I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.
  2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm. They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.

Coco²

  • /ˈkəʊkə/

Where it comes from

From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).

proper noun Cocos · Lo Coco · Cocco · lo-Coco · Lo-Coco · Lococo

  1. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
  2. countable, uncountable A female given name.
  3. countable, uncountable A surname from Sicilian.

CoCo³

noun CoCos

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of contingent convertible bond

    Similar: CoCo bond

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: coco palm, coconut, coconut palm, cocoa palm, coconut tree, cocos nucifera, nut, koko, cacao, honey, cocoa, red, alkyl, coke, kitty, bird

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"coco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/coco. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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coco. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/coco

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"coco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/coco.

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@misc{coco_2026,
  title = {coco},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coco},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}