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Plural of bean

regular plural

The plural of bean is beans.

Forms of bean

Singularbean /ˈbi(ː)n/
Pluralbeans /biːnz/
Countablecountable

Beans in a sentence

  • Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.
  • You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.From the entry there
  • The baked beans can go on this shelf, and the same goes for all these other tins.From the entry go
  • You can have plain green beans, or gussie them up with a bit of cheese and onion.From the entry gussy up
  • Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.From the entry pea

Meaning of bean

  1. noun Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
  2. noun The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
  3. noun The edible seedpod of such a plant.

Full definition of bean

Questions about the plural of bean

What is the plural of bean?
The plural of bean is beans.
Is bean countable?
Bean is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bean (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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