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Inka

Inka is the alternative form of Inca.

Meaning of Inca

Noun

Inca (plural Incas or Inca)

  1. A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.
    • To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes.2007 June 24, Arthur Lubow, “The Possessed”, in The New York Times

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Forms of Inka

pluralInkas
pluralInka

Questions about Inka

What is Inka the alternative form of?
Inka is the alternative form of Inca.

Words near Inka in the dictionary

  1. ink-pot
  2. ink-pots
  3. ink-stained
  4. ink-well
  5. ink-wells
  6. Inka
  7. inkable
  8. inkalimeva
  9. Inkan
  10. Inkas
  11. inkball

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Inka (page history and authors); Inca (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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