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Plural of flicker

regular plural

The plural of flicker is flickers.

Forms of flicker

Singularflicker /ˈflɪkə/
Pluralflickers
Countablecountable and uncountable

Flickers in a sentence

  • Out of the darkness came some flickers of light.From the entry darkness
  • Out of the blackness came some flickers of light.From the entry blackness
  • Now Dianamania flickers fitfully on and off like faulty neon while Beatlemania blazes stronger than ever.2005, Philip Norman, Shout!: the Beatles in their generation. From the entry Dianamania
  • A match flickers, a lantern lights up the asperities of the mud wall; the window goes black.1937, Robert Byron, “Maragha (4900 ft.), October 16th”, in The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part II, page 56. From the entry asperity
  • Essential in music videos and common in flashbacks and dream sequences, the flash cut flickers many images across the screen over a period of a second or two.2006, Chris Kenworthy, Digital Video Production Cookbook, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry flash cut

Meaning of flicker

  1. noun An unsteady flash of light.
  2. noun A short moment.
  3. verb To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.

Full definition of flicker

Questions about the plural of flicker

What is the plural of flicker?
The plural of flicker is flickers.
Is flicker countable?
Flicker is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flicker (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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