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coit

/kɔɪt/noun, verb

coit is spelled C-O-I-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, coit means “Synonym of coition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in coit?

Letters4: C-O-I-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 83,271st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is coit?

Coit appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce coit?

  • /kɔɪt/

Coit has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-coit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with coit?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as coit.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: otic.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of coit

  • coits present, singular, he/she/it
  • coiting participle, present
  • coited participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does coit mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of coition.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo throw.

    to coit a stone

  2. 2

    rareto copulate; to have sexual intercourse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does coit come from?

Back-formation from coitus.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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