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Plural of format

regular plural

The plural of format is formats.

Forms of format

Singularformat /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/
Pluralformats /ˈfɔɹ.mæts/
Countablecountable

Formats in a sentence

  • They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.From the entry hippie
  • If you don't want to hassle through converting formats, you'll have to stick with one program.From the entry hassle
  • The earliest BarCamps focused on web applications through open-sourced technologies and open data formats.2012, Adam Crowe, Disasters 2.0: The Application of Social Media Systems for Modern Emergency Management, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry barcamp
  • Never have there been more opportunities to have one's knickerlessness displayed in so many formats.2007, The Independent, 10 Jan 07. From the entry knickerlessness
  • This chapter contains recipes for editing and modifying images, including converting between image file formats.2004, Michael Stutz, The Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition. From the entry featuresome

Meaning of format

  1. noun The layout of a publication or document.
  2. noun The form of presentation of something.
  3. noun The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.

Full definition of format

Questions about the plural of format

What is the plural of format?
The plural of format is formats.
Is format countable?
Format is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: format (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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