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Plural of flounder

irregular plural

The plural of flounder is flounder or flounders.

Forms of flounder

Singularflounder /ˈflaʊ̯ndəː/
Pluralflounder /ˈflaʊ̯ndəː/
flounders
Countablecountable

Flounders in a sentence

  • Bothids are left-eyed flounders, that is, both eyes are found on the left side of the adults after metamorphosing from the more traditional one-eye-per-side mode as post-larvae.1994, G. H. Burgess, S. H. Smith, E. D. Lane, “11: Fishes of the Cayman Islands”, in M. A. Brunt, J. E. Davies, editors, The Cayman…. From the entry bothid

Meaning of flounder

  1. noun A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
  2. noun Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
  3. noun A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.

Full definition of flounder

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of flounder

What is the plural of flounder?
The plural of flounder is flounder or flounders.
Is flounder countable?
Flounder is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flounder (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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