Plural of football
regular plural
The plural of football is footballs.
Forms of football
| Singular | football /ˈfʊt.bɔːl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | footballs |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Footballs in a sentence
- The league said the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots used footballs that didn’t meet league specifications in the first half of the AFC championship game last Sunday.2015 January 23, Ralph Ellis, “NFL says it’s looking into why footballs were deflated at Patriots game”, in CNN
- And he said that the main candidate for the trauma was heading the footballs.2020 February 24, Jack Guy, “UK football authorities ban children from heading footballs in training”, in CNN
- With obvious disdain, Squat replied, “Yeah, you know, that is what they call footballs, dummy.”2011, J. H. Holland, Dsi: Diddly Squat Investigation, page 35. From the entry pigskin
- Some referenda feel like neverenda, political footballs kicked about in empty aisles.2011, Peter Swirski, American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History, Routledge, page 86. From the entry neverendum
- I guess Sunday night taught us that religions and footballs have their hocuses and pocuses, too.1988 December 10, Walter J. Rittle, “Religion, Football”, in The Daily News, number 93, Lebanon, Pa., page 6, column 6. From the entry hocus and pocus
Meaning of football
- noun A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
- noun The ball used in any game called "football".
- noun Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
Questions about the plural of football
- What is the plural of football?
- The plural of football is footballs.
- Is football countable?
- Football is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: football (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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