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Plural of cleft

regular plural

The plural of cleft is clefts.

Forms of cleft

Singularcleft /ˈklɛft/
Pluralclefts
Countablecountable

Clefts in a sentence

  • First of all they released the arms from the bodies, then making four clefts at the end of each arm they fashioned hands and fingers.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 42

Meaning of cleft

  1. noun An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
  2. noun A piece made by splitting.
  3. noun A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

Full definition of cleft

Questions about the plural of cleft

What is the plural of cleft?
The plural of cleft is clefts.
Is cleft countable?
Cleft is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleft (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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