Adoptions have gone up 600% since the epidemic of vagina dentata began.
Source: tatoeba (754827)
Vagina
/vəˈdʒaɪ.nə/
Synonyms for "vagina" (150 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (75)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: axe wound, bag, ballocks, balls, basket.
- Sentence evidence is available for vagina, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wiktionary, moby, opengloss, derived_reverse, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "vagina".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "vagina"
Keep "vagina" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "vagina" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "vagina", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "vagina" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
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Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
242 translations across 133 languages.
Afar
1 entries- bus noun (anatomical sense)
Afrikaans
1 entries- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Ahtna
1 entries- -tʼoseʼ noun (anatomical sense)
Albanian
2 entries- vaginë noun (anatomical sense)
- vagjinë noun (anatomical sense)
Amharic
1 entries- እምስ noun (anatomical sense)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μυχή noun (anatomical sense)
Arabic
4 entries- فَرْج noun (anatomical sense)
- مَهْبَل noun (anatomical sense)
- مَهْبِل noun (anatomical sense)
- ڤاچاينا noun (anatomical sense)
Aragonese
1 entries- vachina noun (anatomical sense)
Armenian
2 entries- հեշտոց noun (anatomical sense)
- պուց noun (anatomical sense)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
3 entries- ܚܲܢܘܼܬܵܐ noun (anatomical sense)
- ܥܲܝܒܵܐ noun (anatomical sense)
- ܪܲܚܡܵܐ noun (anatomical sense)
Asturian
1 entries- vaxina noun (anatomical sense)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- am noun (anatomical sense)
- uşaqlıq yolu noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
- vajina noun (anatomical sense)
Bavarian German
1 entries- fud noun (anatomical sense)
Belarusian
3 entries- вагі́на noun (anatomical sense)
- по́хва noun (anatomical sense)
- пізда́ noun (anatomical sense)
Bengali
1 entries- যোনি noun (anatomical sense)
Bhojpuri
2 entries- बुर noun (anatomical sense)
- योनि noun (anatomical sense)
Breton
1 entries- gouhin noun (anatomical sense)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ваги́на noun (anatomical sense)
- влага́лище noun (anatomical sense)
- пу́тка noun (anatomical sense)
Burmese
2 entries- ယောနိ noun (anatomical sense)
- သားအိမ်လမ်းကြောင်း noun (anatomical sense)
Catalan
2 entries- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (zootomical sense)
Cebuano
2 entries- bilat noun (anatomical sense)
- buto noun (anatomical sense)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- قوز noun (anatomical sense)
- کوز noun (anatomical sense)
Chamicuro
1 entries- shaki noun (anatomical sense)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᎴᏍᏓᎸᎢ noun (anatomical sense)
Chinese
1 entries- 陰道 /阴道 noun (anatomical sense)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 陰道 /阴道 noun (anatomical sense)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 陰道 /阴道 noun (anatomical sense)
Cornish
1 entries- kons noun (anatomical sense)
Czech
3 entries- pochva noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (zootomical sense)
- vagína noun (anatomical sense)
Danish
2 entries- skede noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Dutch
2 entries- schede noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Egyptian
1 entries- kA:t-F51 noun (anatomical sense)
Esperanto
1 entries- vagino noun (anatomical sense)
Estonian
3 entries- tupp noun (anatomical sense)
- tupp noun (botanical sense)
- vagiina noun (anatomical sense)
Faroese
1 entries- skeið noun (anatomical sense)
Finnish
3 entries- emätin noun (anatomical sense)
- tuppi noun (botanical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
French
1 entries- vagin noun (anatomical sense)
Galician
1 entries- vaxina noun (anatomical sense)
Georgian
2 entries- ვაგინა noun (anatomical sense)
- საშო noun (anatomical sense)
German
2 entries- Scheide noun (anatomical sense)
- Vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Greek
2 entries- κολεός noun (anatomical sense)
- κόλπος noun (anatomical sense)
Greenlandic
1 entries- naalungiarsuup aqqutaa noun (anatomical sense)
Guerrero Amuzgo
1 entries- jne noun (anatomical sense)
Gujarati
2 entries- યોનિ noun (anatomical sense)
- યોની noun (anatomical sense)
Hawaiian
1 entries- kohe noun (anatomical sense)
Hebrew
1 entries- נַרְתִּיק noun (anatomical sense)
Hindi
3 entries- चूत noun (anatomical sense)
- बुर noun (anatomical sense)
- योनि noun (anatomical sense)
Hungarian
2 entries- hüvely noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Icelandic
3 entries- leggöng noun (anatomical sense)
- skeið noun (anatomical sense)
- slíður noun (anatomical sense)
Ido
1 entries- vagino noun (anatomical sense)
Inari Sami
1 entries- iämádâh noun (anatomical sense)
Indonesian
3 entries- farji noun (anatomical sense)
- puki noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Ingrian
2 entries- präski noun (anatomical sense)
- vittu noun (anatomical sense)
Irish
1 entries- faighin noun (anatomical sense)
Italian
2 entries- guaina noun (botanical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Japanese
3 entries- バギナ noun (anatomical sense)
- ワギナ noun (anatomical sense)
- 膣 noun (anatomical sense)
Kannada
2 entries- ತುಲ್ಲು noun (anatomical sense)
- ಯೋನಿ noun (anatomical sense)
Kashmiri
1 entries- گوٗد noun (anatomical sense)
Kazakh
2 entries- влагалище noun (anatomical sense)
- қынап noun (anatomical sense)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thāuh noun (anatomical sense)
Khmer
1 entries- យោនី noun (anatomical sense)
Korean
3 entries- 바기나 noun (anatomical sense)
- 보지 noun (anatomical sense)
- 질 noun (anatomical sense)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- влагалище noun (anatomical sense)
- жыныс коңулу noun (anatomical sense)
- ийин noun (anatomical sense)
Lao
2 entries- ຊ່ອງຄອດ noun (anatomical sense)
- ໂຍນີ noun (anatomical sense)
Latin
2 entries- vāgīna noun (anatomical sense)
- vās muliebre noun (anatomical sense)
Latvian
2 entries- maksts noun (anatomical sense)
- vagīna noun (anatomical sense)
Lithuanian
1 entries- makštis noun (anatomical sense)
Macedonian
3 entries- ваги́на noun (anatomical sense)
- пичка noun (anatomical sense)
- родница noun (anatomical sense)
Malay
3 entries- faraj noun (anatomical sense)
- liang peranakan noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Malayalam
1 entries- യോനി noun (anatomical sense)
Maltese
1 entries- vaġina noun (anatomical sense)
Mandinka
1 entries- bee noun (anatomical sense)
Manx
1 entries- fine noun (anatomical sense)
Marathi
1 entries- योनी noun (anatomical sense)
Mongolian
3 entries- эм бэлэг эрхтэн noun (anatomical sense)
- үтрээ noun (anatomical sense)
- ᠦᠲᠦᠷᠦᠭᠡ noun (anatomical sense)
Muong
1 entries- chẻ noun (anatomical sense)
Navajo
1 entries- ajóózh noun (anatomical sense)
Nepali
2 entries- पुति noun (anatomical sense)
- योनीमार्ग noun (anatomical sense)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- quz noun (anatomical sense)
- vajîna noun (anatomical sense)
- zê noun (anatomical sense)
Northern Mansi
1 entries- но̄н noun (anatomical sense)
Northern Sami
2 entries- cinˈná noun (anatomical sense)
- viigá noun (anatomical sense)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- skjede noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- skjede noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Nǀuu
2 entries- ǁxʼoe noun (anatomical sense)
- ǃʻum noun (anatomical sense)
Odia
1 entries- ଯୋନି noun (anatomical sense)
Okinawan
1 entries- 陰目 noun (anatomical sense)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- مهبل noun (anatomical sense)
Pashto
2 entries- فرج noun (anatomical sense)
- مهبل noun (anatomical sense)
Persian
4 entries- فرج noun (anatomical sense)
- مهبل noun (anatomical sense)
- واژن noun (anatomical sense)
- چوز noun (anatomical sense)
Polabian
1 entries- pinkă noun (anatomical sense)
Polish
2 entries- pochwa noun (anatomical sense)
- wagina noun (anatomical sense)
Portuguese
1 entries- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Romani
1 entries- mizh noun (anatomical sense)
Romanian
1 entries- vagin noun (anatomical sense)
Russian
4 entries- ваги́на noun (anatomical sense)
- влага́лище noun (anatomical sense)
- же́нский полово́й о́рган noun (anatomical sense)
- пизда́ noun (anatomical sense)
Saho
1 entries- bus noun (anatomical sense)
Sanskrit
3 entries- योनि noun (anatomical sense)
- योनिः noun (anatomical sense)
- स्त्रीन्द्रिय noun (anatomical sense)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- duillef noun (anatomical sense)
- faighean noun (anatomical sense)
- geobag noun (anatomical sense)
- truiteag noun (anatomical sense)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- rȍdnica noun (anatomical sense)
- vagína noun (anatomical sense)
- ваги́на noun (anatomical sense)
- ро̏дница noun (anatomical sense)
Sicilian
3 entries- vaggina noun (anatomical sense)
- vajina noun (anatomical sense)
- vajina noun (botanical sense)
Sikkimese
2 entries- ཇ་ལི noun (anatomical sense)
- མཇང noun (anatomical sense)
Sinhalese
1 entries- යෝනි noun (anatomical sense)
Skolt Sami
1 entries- njuõckkčoodd noun (anatomical sense)
Slovak
2 entries- pošva noun (anatomical sense)
- vagína noun (anatomical sense)
Slovene
2 entries- nóžnica noun (anatomical sense)
- vagína noun (anatomical sense)
Spanish
1 entries- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Swahili
1 entries- kuma noun (anatomical sense)
Swedish
2 entries- slida noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Tagalog
4 entries- daang-bata noun (anatomical sense)
- kiki noun (anatomical sense)
- pekpek noun (anatomical sense)
- puki noun (anatomical sense)
Tajik
2 entries- маҳбал noun (anatomical sense)
- фарҷ noun (anatomical sense)
Tamil
3 entries- புண்டை noun (anatomical sense)
- பெண்குறி noun (anatomical sense)
- யோனி noun (anatomical sense)
Tatar
1 entries- дымлык noun (anatomical sense)
Telugu
1 entries- యోని noun (anatomical sense)
Thai
2 entries- ช่องคลอด noun (anatomical sense)
- โยนี noun (anatomical sense)
Tibetan
3 entries- གསོལ་སྟུ noun (anatomical sense)
- མོ་མཚན noun (anatomical sense)
- སྟུ noun (anatomical sense)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ጉሕጓሕ noun (anatomical sense)
Tocharian B
1 entries- strīndri noun (anatomical sense)
Tooro
1 entries- emana class 9 noun (anatomical sense)
Turkish
3 entries- am noun (anatomical sense)
- mehbil noun (anatomical sense)
- vajina noun (anatomical sense)
Turkmen
2 entries- am noun (anatomical sense)
- wlagalişe noun (anatomical sense)
Udi
1 entries- кӏутӏ noun (anatomical sense)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вагі́на noun (anatomical sense)
- пизда́ noun (anatomical sense)
- пі́хва noun (anatomical sense)
Urdu
4 entries- فرج noun (anatomical sense)
- وجائنا noun (anatomical sense)
- پھدی noun (anatomical sense)
- چوت noun (anatomical sense)
Uyghur
1 entries- جىنسىي يول noun (anatomical sense)
Uzbek
3 entries- diloq noun (anatomical sense)
- qin noun (anatomical sense)
- vagina noun (anatomical sense)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lồn noun (anatomical sense)
- âm đạo noun (anatomical sense)
Volapük
1 entries- vagin noun (anatomical sense)
Welsh
1 entries- gwain noun (anatomical sense)
West-Frisian
2 entries- fagina noun (anatomical sense)
- skie noun (anatomical sense)
Wiradjuri
1 entries- binij noun (anatomical sense)
Yao
1 entries- likuma class 5 noun (anatomical sense)
Yiddish
3 entries- וואַגינע noun (anatomical sense)
- מוטערשייד noun (anatomical sense)
- שייד noun (anatomical sense)
Zazaki
1 entries- kis noun (anatomical sense)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The penis entered the vagina.
Source: tatoeba (775412)
To avoid injury or discomfort, be sure that the vagina is lubricated before intercourse.
Source: tatoeba (775419)
That is not art. That is a vagina with teeth.
Source: tatoeba (794580)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "vagina"?
Closest matches include axe wound, bag, ballocks, balls, basket.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "vagina"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.