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Plural of doughnut

regular plural

The plural of doughnut is doughnuts.

Forms of doughnut

Singulardoughnut /ˈdəʊnʌt/
Pluraldoughnuts
Countablecountable

Doughnuts in a sentence

  • One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.2003, Len Fisher, How to Dunk a Doughnut, U.S. edition, Arcade Publishing, page 2
  • The advantage of the doughnuts was that they spread the weight of the aeroplane over a much larger area of ground, causing less damage to grass, and making them less prone to bogging down in wet conditions.1975, Flight International (volume 107, part 2)
  • Nepalis eat sweet fried rice-flour doughnuts called sel roti.From the entry roti
  • Lions, Stones noted drily, are “not something you dish out like doughnuts”.2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian. From the entry set back
  • These Russian-introduced stuffed doughnuts are usually filled with sweet cream and are found in all three countries.2022 June, Tom Masters, Joel Balsam, Jenny Smith, “Plan Your Trip: Eat & Drink Like a Local”, in Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan, 7th…. From the entry ponchik

Meaning of doughnut

  1. noun A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
  2. noun A circular life raft.
  3. noun A toroidal vacuum chamber.

Full definition of doughnut

Questions about the plural of doughnut

What is the plural of doughnut?
The plural of doughnut is doughnuts.
Is doughnut countable?
Doughnut is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doughnut (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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