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Plural of essay

regular plural

The plural of essay is essays.

Forms of essay

Singularessay /ˈɛs.eɪ/
Pluralessays /ˈɛseɪz/
Countablecountable

Essays in a sentence

  • After you hand in your essays, I will give both grades and feedback.From the entry feedback
  • Some students pad out their essays by adding a whole lot of quotes from random sources.From the entry pad out
  • The teacher asked students to submit essays with proper annotation.From the entry annotation
  • All of these essays have a common thread.From the entry thread
  • My essays are in the folder named "Schoolwork".From the entry folder

Meaning of essay

  1. noun A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
  2. noun A test, experiment; an assay.
  3. noun An attempt.

Full definition of essay

Questions about the plural of essay

What is the plural of essay?
The plural of essay is essays.
Is essay countable?
Essay is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: essay (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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