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Plural of blackout

regular plural

The plural of blackout is blackouts.

Forms of blackout

Singularblackout /ˈblæk.aʊt/
Pluralblackouts /ˈblækaʊts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Blackouts in a sentence

  • This follows huge blackouts related to the problems at the power supplier since November.2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 5
  • The blackouts, the hangovers, the vomiting, the hotboxes, the detox, the shame, and the degradation.2012, Maxine Thompson, L..A. Blues II. From the entry hotbox
  • Then, as also happens, there were slowdowns; dimmings, even blackouts here and there.2008 March 28, Holland Cotter, “When the Islamic World Was Inspired by the West”, in New York Times. From the entry dimming
  • Blackouts were reported throughout the region as people trying to keep cool with fans and air conditioners strained the power grid.2021 June 29, Gabrielle Canon, “Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west”, in The Guardian. From the entry climate breakdown
  • The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War, Casemate Publishers…. From the entry blackouts

Meaning of blackout

  1. noun A temporary loss of consciousness.
  2. noun A temporary loss of memory.
  3. noun A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.

Full definition of blackout

Questions about the plural of blackout

What is the plural of blackout?
The plural of blackout is blackouts.
Is blackout countable?
Blackout is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blackout (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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