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Plural of comma

regular plural

The plural of comma is commas.

Forms of comma

Singularcomma /ˈkɒmə/
Pluralcommas
Countablecountable

Commas in a sentence

  • The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.From the entry gum
  • A comma-delimited file has commas as the delimiter, separating each field of the file.From the entry delimiter
  • He was a sloppy punctuator, often leaving out commas and confusing colons with semicolons.From the entry punctuator
  • Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.From the entry delimit
  • Just last week, she’d had to fix the Shatner commas in one of his briefs.2025 June 3, Renée Ahdieh, “Firebreather”, in Park Avenue: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Flatiron Books, →ISBN. From the entry Shatner comma

Meaning of comma

  1. noun The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. noun A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Full definition of comma

Questions about the plural of comma

What is the plural of comma?
The plural of comma is commas.
Is comma countable?
Comma is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comma (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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