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fail-safes

fail-safes is the plural of fail-safe.

fail-safes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fail-safe.

Meaning of fail-safe

Noun

fail-safe (plural fail-safes)

  1. A device, mechanism or measure designed to make something fail-safe.

See all 5 meanings of fail-safe

Questions about fail-safes

What is fail-safes the plural of?
Fail-safes is the plural of fail-safe.

Words near fail-safes in the dictionary

  1. fail whales
  2. fail'd
  3. fail-deadly
  4. fail-safe
  5. fail-safed
  6. fail-safes
  7. fail-safing
  8. fail-secure
  9. fail-soft
  10. failable
  11. failance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fail-safes (page history and authors); fail-safe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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