Plural of chicken
regular plural
The plural of chicken is chickens.
Forms of chicken
| Singular | chicken /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | chickens /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Chickens in a sentence
- There they are – four ugly little chickens, a bit more than half-feathered, and all gaping mouths and bare bellies.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 220
- I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.From the entry osmosis
- An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".From the entry idiomatic
- Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.From the entry the chickens come home to roost
- I was a computer programmer in a past life, but now I raise pigs and chickens.From the entry past life
Meaning of chicken
- noun A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- noun The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- noun The young of any bird; a chick.
Questions about the plural of chicken
- What is the plural of chicken?
- The plural of chicken is chickens.
- Is chicken countable?
- Chicken is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chicken (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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