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Plural of fluke

irregular plural

The plural of fluke is fluke or flukes.

Forms of fluke

Singularfluke /fluːk/
Pluralfluke /fluːk/
flukes
Countablecountable

Plural of fluke by meaning

  1. a summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus): fluke or flukes
  2. a lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.: flukes
  3. any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.: flukes

Flukes in a sentence

  • The man became infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.
  • The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank.1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published...
  • However, piwi and tudor-domain containing genes are absent from flukes and tapeworms and no true vasa orthologue has been identified in schistosomes.2015 August 25, David Roquis et al., “The Epigenome of Schistosoma mansoni Provides Insight about How Cercariae Poise Transcription until…. From the entry piwi
  • It is a good rule in any case of letting go an old-fashioned anchor when aground, to unstock it and foul the flukes with several turns of cable.2015, E. F. Knight, Handbook of Seamanship, page 739. From the entry unstock

Meaning of fluke

  1. noun A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.
  2. verb To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
  3. verb To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.

Full definition of fluke

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of fluke

What is the plural of fluke?
The plural of fluke is fluke or flukes.
Is fluke countable?
Fluke is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fluke (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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