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Plural of keyhole

regular plural

The plural of keyhole is keyholes.

Forms of keyhole

Singularkeyhole /ˈkiˌhoʊ̯l/
Pluralkeyholes
Countablecountable

Keyholes in a sentence

  • Maybe Kenny still lived at home with his parents and bedroomsful of Slimp sisters that he watched through old gaping keyholes.1995, Lois Braun, The Montreal Cats, Turnstone Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry bedroomful
  • There is a poopetrator on the loose in Brooklyn, responsible for smearing feces on a number of doors and keyholes in the Prospect Heights and Crown Heights areas.2012 March 28, Cassandra Garrison, “Brooklyn poop vandal strikes again”, in Metro. From the entry poopetrator

Meaning of keyhole

  1. noun The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns.
  2. noun Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.
  3. noun A small incision through which surgical instruments can reach into an anatomic space beyond.

Full definition of keyhole

Questions about the plural of keyhole

What is the plural of keyhole?
The plural of keyhole is keyholes.
Is keyhole countable?
Keyhole is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keyhole (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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