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Plural of coil

regular plural

The plural of coil is coils.

Forms of coil

Singularcoil /kɔɪl/
Pluralcoils /kɔɪlz/
Countablecountable

Coils in a sentence

  • the sinuous coils of a snake
  • I saw the snake-like coils of the garden hose peeking out from under the deck.From the entry -like
  • The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.From the entry rod
  • The snake's coils were tightly convoluted.From the entry convolute
  • These hyphal coils develop into pre-fruiting bodies named protoperithecia within 5 days.2015 September 30, “Germinal Center Kinases SmKIN3 and SmKIN24 Are Associated with the Sordaria macrospora Striatin-Interacting…. From the entry protoperithecia

Meaning of coil

  1. noun Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
  2. noun Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).
  3. noun A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.

Full definition of coil

Questions about the plural of coil

What is the plural of coil?
The plural of coil is coils.
Is coil countable?
Coil is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coil (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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