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Plural of break

regular plural

The plural of break is breaks.

Forms of break

Singularbreak /bɹeɪk/
Pluralbreaks /bɹeɪks/
Countablecountable

Breaks in a sentence

  • “If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said.2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Conversely, as the emulsion breaks and the system returns to the original state, energy is released.2004, J. L. Atwood, Jonathan W. Steed, Encyclopedia of supramolecular chemistry, volume 2, page 1466
  • The vouchers are redeemable against West End shows and theatre breaks.From the entry against
  • Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.From the entry trap
  • If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.From the entry nuke

Meaning of break

  1. verb To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
  2. verb To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
  3. verb To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.

Full definition of break

Questions about the plural of break

What is the plural of break?
The plural of break is breaks.
Is break countable?
Break is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: break (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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