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Plural of attack

regular plural

The plural of attack is attacks.

Forms of attack

Singularattack /əˈtæk/
Pluralattacks /əˈtæks/
Countablecountable

Attacks in a sentence

  • From 1906 to 1960, there were forty-six recorded shark attacks, half of which were fatal.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 161
  • I got tired of his trolling and ad hominem attacks, so I plonked him.From the entry plonk
  • The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.From the entry corral
  • Her parents claimed that the scratchlike marks on her skin were caused by poltergeist attacks.From the entry scratchlike
  • Anyone who attacks this fort will be turned to cat meat.From the entry cat meat

Meaning of attack

  1. noun An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
  2. noun Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
  3. noun An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.

Full definition of attack

Questions about the plural of attack

What is the plural of attack?
The plural of attack is attacks.
Is attack countable?
Attack is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: attack (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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