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Plural of flanker

regular plural

The plural of flanker is flankers.

Forms of flanker

Singularflanker /ˈflæŋkə/
Pluralflankers
Countablecountable

Flankers in a sentence

  • With flankers Mamuka Gorgodze and Shalva Sutiashvili to the fore, Georgia came swarming back, dominating England at the breakdown.2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport. From the entry to the fore

Meaning of flanker

  1. noun A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.
  2. noun A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.
  3. noun A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.

Full definition of flanker

Questions about the plural of flanker

What is the plural of flanker?
The plural of flanker is flankers.
Is flanker countable?
Flanker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flanker (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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