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Plural of head

regular plural

The plural of head is heads or head.

Forms of head

Singularhead /hɛd/
Pluralheads /hɛdz/
head /hɛd/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Heads in a sentence

  • The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
  • Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 243
  • Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.From the entry grind
  • A fair coin has a 50% chance of landing on heads.From the entry fair
  • The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.From the entry office

Meaning of head

  1. noun The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
  2. noun Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
  3. noun Mind; one's own thoughts.

Full definition of head

Questions about the plural of head

What is the plural of head?
The plural of head is heads or head.
Is head countable?
Head is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: head (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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