Plural of inch
regular plural
The plural of inch is inches.
Forms of inch
| Singular | inch /ɪnt͡ʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | inches /ˈɪnt͡ʃɪz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Less standard forms: inch (colloquial).
Inches in a sentence
- Expect around 2 inches of rain on Saturday afternoon.
- An ivy-clad farmhouse surrounded by trees, it stood on the sunny side of a sloping hill at the foot of which the Darigle river curved its way through gold-furzed inches to disappear under a stone bridge into the woods beyond.1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 6
- Trim the stick down to a length of about twelve inches.From the entry down
- Some marmosets are less than six inches tall. —Well, isn't that something?From the entry something
- That vase isn't exactly central. Could you move it over a couple of inches?From the entry over
Meaning of inch
- noun An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm.
- noun Any very short distance.
- noun Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
Questions about the plural of inch
- What is the plural of inch?
- The plural of inch is inches.
- Is inch countable?
- Inch is a countable noun.
- Is inch correct?
- inch is marked colloquial in Wiktionary. The usual plural of inch is inches.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: inch (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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