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Plural of ingredient

regular plural

The plural of ingredient is ingredients.

Forms of ingredient

Singularingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
Pluralingredients
Countablecountable

Ingredients in a sentence

  • The ingredients of a Spanish omelette are potatoes, eggs, onion, and a little salt.
  • Patience and understanding are key ingredients for a long-lasting marriage.
  • We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.From the entry gourmet
  • A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.From the entry eyeball
  • That recipe is an old standby, and she keeps the ingredients around in case of unexpected guests.From the entry standby

Meaning of ingredient

  1. noun One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
  2. noun A necessary element to achieve a certain goal; a component.

Full definition of ingredient

Questions about the plural of ingredient

What is the plural of ingredient?
The plural of ingredient is ingredients.
Is ingredient countable?
Ingredient is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ingredient (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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