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vagina

/vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables
va-gi-na
IPA
/vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sex organ for copulation and birth, found in female therian mammals, consisting of a passage between the vulval vestibule and the cervix of the uterus.

noun

A sex organ for copulation and birth, found in female therian mammals, consisting of a passage between the vulval vestibule and the cervix of the uterus.

noun

A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.

noun

The vulva, or the vulva and vaginal passage collectively.

Colloquial

noun

A coward; a weakling; a pussy.

Colloquial; Derogatory

noun

The anus.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāgīnā Latin vāgīnalbor. English vagina Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

vaginas (plural) vaginae (plural) vaginæ (archaic, plural)

Derived Forms

mangina neovagina vab vag vagacial vagedgie vagenda vagenis vaginaed vaginaless vaginalike vaginamoney

Phrases

per vagina sand in one's vagina vagina envy vagina lips vagino- vagin- introitus vaginæ per vaginam

Frequently Paired Words

introitus vaginæ invaginate per vaginam vagina dentata vaginal vaginally vaginant vaginaphobic

Synonyms

sheath axe wound badly packed kebab bearded clam beaver beef curtains burger chocha clam cooch coochie coochy

Rhymes With

china carolina medina dinah indochina fina angina karolina kalina jasmina krajina myna

Questions

How do you pronounce vagina?
The recorded pronunciation is /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/.
What does vagina mean?
A sex organ for copulation and birth, found in female therian mammals, consisting of a passage between the vulval vestibule and the cervix of the uterus.
Where does vagina come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wāgīnā Latin vāgīnalbor. English vagina Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

How to pronounce vagina

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