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Plural of flake

regular plural

The plural of flake is flakes.

Forms of flake

Singularflake /fleɪk/
Pluralflakes /ˈfleɪks/
Countablecountable

Flakes in a sentence

  • There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
  • flakes of dandruff
  • I sprinkled little flakes into the fish tank for the guppies to eat.From the entry fish tank
  • Crushed red pepper flakes add zest to pizza.From the entry red pepper
  • Coconut flakes and desiccated coconut are pretty much the same thing, but processed differently.2023 October 12, Dan Toombs, Curry Guy One Pot: Over 150 Curries and Other Deliciously Spiced Dishes from Around the World, Hardie Grant…. From the entry korma

Meaning of flake

  1. noun A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
  2. noun A scale of a fish or similar animal.
  3. noun A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.

Full definition of flake

Questions about the plural of flake

What is the plural of flake?
The plural of flake is flakes.
Is flake countable?
Flake is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flake (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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