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Plural of clarinet

regular plural

The plural of clarinet is clarinets.

Forms of clarinet

Singularclarinet /ˌklæɹɪˈnɛt/
Pluralclarinets
Countablecountable

Clarinets in a sentence

  • Sniffers of fuzzy-tipped drumsticks, owners of spit-caked clarinets, and donners of fringy polyester uniforms.2011, Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 362. From the entry donner
  • Among the many benchmarks of his career, he developed the first complete choir of in-tune clarinets, ranging from sopranino to octocontrabass.1999, The Clarinet, volume 27, page 13. From the entry octocontrabass
  • Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.1990, Francis Bebey, African music: a people's art, page 64. From the entry oboe
  • The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.1983, Terence J. O'Grady, The Beatles, a Musical Evolution, Macmillan Reference USA. From the entry music hall

Meaning of clarinet

  1. noun A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

Full definition of clarinet

Questions about the plural of clarinet

What is the plural of clarinet?
The plural of clarinet is clarinets.
Is clarinet countable?
Clarinet is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clarinet (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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