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Plural of grain

regular plural

The plural of grain is grains.

Forms of grain

Singulargrain /ɡɹeɪn/
Pluralgrains /ɡɹeɪnz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Grains in a sentence

  • grains of oat
  • The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.From the entry uncountable
  • The sieve will filter out large rocks and grains of sand.From the entry filter out
  • Unpolished grains that retained their outer coating were a major linchpin of his diet of whole foods.From the entry whole food
  • The stars are as numberless as the grains of sand on a beach.From the entry numberless

Meaning of grain

  1. noun The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
  2. noun Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
  3. noun A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

Full definition of grain

Questions about the plural of grain

What is the plural of grain?
The plural of grain is grains.
Is grain countable?
Grain is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grain (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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