Plural of knee
regular plural
The plural of knee is knees.
Forms of knee
| Singular | knee /niː/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | knees /niːz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Less standard forms: kneen (dialectal).
Knees in a sentence
- Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
- Get off your knees and soar.1988 March 21, Vaughn Armstrong, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC
- One moment the company was flying high, the next it was on its knees.From the entry fly
- She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.From the entry scrabble
- The girl had skid marks on the knees of her jeans.From the entry skid mark
Meaning of knee
- noun In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
- noun In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- noun The tarsal joint, uniting the tarsometatarsus and the tibiotarsus (homologous to the human ankle).
Questions about the plural of knee
- What is the plural of knee?
- The plural of knee is knees.
- Is knee countable?
- Knee is a countable noun.
- Is kneen correct?
- kneen is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual plural of knee is knees.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: knee (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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