vulva

Other forms of vulva

plural

vulvae

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 vulva

What does vulva mean?

vulva means "external parts of the female genitalia".

How many syllables are in vulva?

vulva has 2 syllables: vul-va. The stress falls on "vul". In IPA it is /ˈvʊlvə/.

Is vulva a common word?

vulva 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.