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Plural of fan

regular plural

The plural of fan is fans.

Forms of fan

Singularfan /fæn/
Pluralfans /fænz/
Countablecountable

Less standard forms: fen (colloquial).

Fans in a sentence

  • The fans cheered on the face as he made his comeback.From the entry face
  • Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.From the entry graduate
  • The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.From the entry hit
  • That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.From the entry crowd
  • Fans were in shock in the days following the singer's death.From the entry shock

Meaning of fan

  1. noun A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
  2. noun An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
  3. noun The action of fanning; agitation of the air.

Full definition of fan

Questions about the plural of fan

What is the plural of fan?
The plural of fan is fans.
Is fan countable?
Fan is a countable noun.
Is fen correct?
fen is marked colloquial in Wiktionary. The usual plural of fan is fans.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fan (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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