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Plural of grill

regular plural

The plural of grill is grills or grillz.

Forms of grill

Singulargrill /ɡɹɪl/
Pluralgrills /ɡɹɪlz/
grillz
Countablecountable

Grills and grillz in a sentence

  • a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills
  • Jacki set about making the tea—bacon grills with chips and bread and butter.2018, Ray Wyre, Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood, page 126. From the entry tea
  • Under-fired grills are used to cook food quickly, so they need to reach a high temperature.2014, Keyth Richardson et al., chapter 7, in Basic Cookery for Foundation Learning, London: Hodder Education, →ISBN. From the entry underfired
  • Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering.2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford…. From the entry salamander
  • They were four-wallers, so that meant lighting through grills or hiding lights or having in-shot lamps.1979, American Cinematographer, volume 60, page 768. From the entry four-waller

Meaning of grill

  1. noun A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
  2. noun The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
  3. noun On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.

Full definition of grill

Questions about the plural of grill

What is the plural of grill?
The plural of grill is grills or grillz.
Which is correct, grills or grillz?
Both are used. grills is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is grill countable?
Grill is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grill (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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