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Plural of flute

regular plural

The plural of flute is flutes.

Forms of flute

Singularflute /flu(ː)t/
Pluralflutes /fluːts/
Countablecountable

Flutes in a sentence

  • The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in The New York Times
  • The saxophones typically sit behind the flutes in a concert band.From the entry saxophone
  • If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.From the entry motive
  • We listened to Telemann's intrada for two flutes.From the entry intrada
  • Sitting around on sofas and velvetries with their flutes and their papers and their laughter.2009, Terry Midkiff, World is Woman, page 34. From the entry velvetry

Meaning of flute

  1. noun A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
  2. noun A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
  3. noun A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.

Full definition of flute

Questions about the plural of flute

What is the plural of flute?
The plural of flute is flutes.
Is flute countable?
Flute is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flute (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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