Word.ws English Dictionary

Okak

/ˈoʊ.kɑk/

Okak proper noun: a ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Proper noun

Okak

  1. A ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Origin of Okak

Derived from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut oĸaĸ (“tongue”). The settlement was named after Okak Bay, which is shaped roughly like a tongue.

Questions about Okak

What does Okak mean?
Okak means a ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.
What part of speech is Okak?
Okak is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Okak?
Okak is pronounced /ˈoʊ.kɑk/.

Words near Okak in the dictionary

  1. okadaic acid
  2. okadaic acids
  3. okadas
  4. Okahandja
  5. Okaian
  6. Okak
  7. Okaloosa
  8. Okaloosa County
  9. okama
  10. okamisan
  11. Okamoto

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Okak (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Okak.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/okak. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.