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Plural of keel

regular plural

The plural of keel is keels.

Forms of keel

Singularkeel /kiːl/
Pluralkeels /kiːlz/
Countablecountable

Keels in a sentence

  • We should all go inside before somebody keels over from the heat.From the entry keel over

Meaning of keel

  1. noun A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
  2. noun A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
  3. noun In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

Full definition of keel

Questions about the plural of keel

What is the plural of keel?
The plural of keel is keels.
Is keel countable?
Keel is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keel (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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