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Plural of fork

regular plural

The plural of fork is forks.

Forms of fork

Singularfork /fɔːk/
Pluralforks
Countablecountable

Forks in a sentence

  • a thunderbolt with three forks
  • Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!
  • At New Year he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal.2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, London: Fourth Estate, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 296. From the entry rock crystal
  • Spectators are privy to awe inspiring castles, baffling forks, and breathtaking en passants.1998 December 11, Glenn Kaplan, “Chess: not just for losers, but also Trekkies”, in The Oberlin Review, volume 127, number 12, Oberlin…. From the entry en passant
  • She loved to watch the arabesque of fingers and two forks.1995, Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, 25th Anniversary edition, William Morrow, published…. From the entry arabesque

Meaning of fork

  1. noun A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
  2. noun Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
  3. noun Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

Full definition of fork

Questions about the plural of fork

What is the plural of fork?
The plural of fork is forks.
Is fork countable?
Fork is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fork (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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