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Plural of crumb

regular plural

The plural of crumb is crumbs.

Forms of crumb

Singularcrumb /kɹʌm/
Pluralcrumbs /kɹʌmz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Crumbs in a sentence

  • The pigeons were happily pecking at crumbs of bread on the ground.
  • A dustbrush can be useful in removing any eraser crumbs.2012, Caroline Joy Adams, An Italic Calligraphy Handbook, page 79
  • They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.From the entry bench
  • All that was left of his business were a few measly cake crumbs.From the entry cake crumbs
  • The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.From the entry lot

Meaning of crumb

  1. noun A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
  2. noun A small piece of any other solid substance.
  3. noun A bit, small amount.

Full definition of crumb

Questions about the plural of crumb

What is the plural of crumb?
The plural of crumb is crumbs.
Is crumb countable?
Crumb is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crumb (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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