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Plural of cent

regular plural

The plural of cent is cents or cent.

Forms of cent

Singularcent /sɛnt/
Pluralcents /sɛnts/
cent /sɛnt/
Countablecountable

Cents in a sentence

  • It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent.2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
  • A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.From the entry zero
  • That's just my two cents, you can believe what you like.From the entry two cents
  • That car won't last a week, it's not worth two cents.From the entry two cents
  • I’ve seen your kicks, inmate: you’ve got forty cents to your name.From the entry kicks

Meaning of cent

  1. noun A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  2. noun A small sum of money.
  3. noun A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.

Full definition of cent

Questions about the plural of cent

What is the plural of cent?
The plural of cent is cents or cent.
Is cent countable?
Cent is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cent (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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