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Plural of finch

regular plural

The plural of finch is finches.

Forms of finch

Singularfinch /fɪnt͡ʃ/
Pluralfinches
Countablecountable

Finches in a sentence

  • "All these finches seem to get themselves up in the same way nowadays, till I can't tell one sort of tart from another.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  • A charm of finches flew overhead, singing into the vivid afternoon sky.2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. From the entry charm
  • The molecular work also makes a compelling case that Darwin's finches were originally grassquits.1999, Peter R. Grant, Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches, page xv. From the entry grassquit
  • Some female zebra finches reared with Bengalese finches for 40 days responded to male zebra finches.1981, D. M. Broom, Biology of Behaviour: Mechanisms, Functions and Applications, page 214. From the entry Bengalese finch
  • Quantitative evidence comes, among others, from three studies of adolescent male zebra finches misimprinted on Bengalese finches.1981, Klaus Immelmann, Stephen J. Suomi, “14: Sensitive phases in Development”, in Klaus Immelmann, George W. Barlow, Lewis Petrinovich…. From the entry Bengalese finch

Meaning of finch

  1. noun Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).
  2. noun Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
  3. noun Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

Full definition of finch

Questions about the plural of finch

What is the plural of finch?
The plural of finch is finches.
Is finch countable?
Finch is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finch (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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