copulation

Other forms of copulation

plural

copulations·

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 copulation

What does copulation mean?

copulation 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 copulation?

copulation has 5 syllables and divides as co-pu-la-ti-on 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 copulation?

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

copulation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.