vagina
va·gi·na/vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/noun
vagina is spelled V-A-G-I-N-A: 6 letters and 3 syllables (va·gi·na). It appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vagina means “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…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vagina is vaginas or vaginae; Wiktionary also lists vaginæ (archaic).
How many letters and syllables are in vagina?
| Letters | 6: V-A-G-I-N-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: va·gi·na |
| In writing | 6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is vagina?
Vagina appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th 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 vagina?
- /vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/
Vagina has 3 syllables, split va·gi·na in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vagina.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vagina
- vaginas plural
- vaginae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vagina mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
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.
- 2
A similar organ in some invertebrates and non-mammalian amniotes.
- 3
A sheathlike structure, such as the leaf of a grass that surrounds a stem.
- 4
colloquialThe vulva, or the vulva and vaginal passage collectively.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:vagina.
- 5
colloquialderogatoryrareA coward; a weakling; a pussy.
- 6
The anus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vagina in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense anatomical sense:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vagina come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).