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Plural of knock

regular plural

The plural of knock is knocks.

Forms of knock

Singularknock /nɒk/
Pluralknocks /nɑks/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Knocks in a sentence

  • But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29...
  • Don't be caught napping When opportunity knocks.From the entry opportunity knocks
  • Did Vietnam's school of hard knocks teach Americans to do peacemaking and state building right?2000 April 26, Walter A. McDougall, “Who Were We in Vietnam?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, retrieved…. From the entry peacemaking
  • PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks.1921, Jeff Branen, The African Golf Club: A Blackface Farce, page 12. From the entry snoopingly
  • When Jamie knocks on the door the next day for his manniversary celebration, I still haven't read the texts.2022 April 26, Ray Stoeve, Arden Grey, Abrams, →ISBN. From the entry manniversary

Meaning of knock

  1. noun An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
  2. noun A sharp impact.
  3. noun A criticism.

Full definition of knock

Questions about the plural of knock

What is the plural of knock?
The plural of knock is knocks.
Is knock countable?
Knock is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knock (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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