coït
French, noun/kɔ.it/
coït is spelled C-O-Ï-T (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,708th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coït is a French masculine noun meaning “sexual intercourse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Accouplement sexuel”.
What does coït mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesexual intercourse
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Accouplement sexuel. 2. Pratique sexuelle consistant à pénétrer le vagin ou l’anus avec le pénis.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of coït
- coïts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coït?
- /kɔ.it/
- /kɔ.i/
- \kɔ.it\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coït
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coït in French?
coït appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).