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Plural of bug

regular plural

The plural of bug is bugs.

Forms of bug

Singularbug /bʌɡ/
Pluralbugs /bʌɡz/
Countablecountable

Bugs in a sentence

  • He said we should just drive out to his claim in the Wheeler Quadrangle, and it was just fine with him if we dug a few bugs.2007, Kirk Johnson, Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway, page 174
  • Camera magazine put it recently—by automating to the point that real camera bugs would feel no challenge.1961, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 15, number 12, page 34
  • To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.From the entry screenshot
  • We need to screen this porch. These bugs are driving me crazy.From the entry screen
  • I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs.From the entry install

Meaning of bug

  1. noun An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
  2. noun Any motile small terrestrial invertebrate, especially one that is seen as a pest.
  3. noun Any minibeast.

Full definition of bug

Questions about the plural of bug

What is the plural of bug?
The plural of bug is bugs.
Is bug countable?
Bug is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bug (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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