coition

Other forms of coition

plural

coitions·

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 coition

What does coition mean?

coition means "sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur".

How many syllables are in coition?

coition has 3 syllables and divides as co-i-tion under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coition?

Close synonyms include sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus. 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 coition a common word?

coition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.