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Plural of knuckle

regular plural

The plural of knuckle is knuckles.

Forms of knuckle

Singularknuckle /ˈnʌkəl/
Pluralknuckles /ˈnʌkəlz/
Countablecountable

Knuckles in a sentence

  • Just rap your knuckles on the wall when you're ready to go.From the entry rap someone's knuckles
  • If the sales department doesn't get organized soon, the CEO is going to rap their knuckles.From the entry rap someone's knuckles
  • My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.From the entry skinned
  • Jacob always carried a set of brass knuckles, just in case he ever got caught up in a bar fight.From the entry brass knuckles
  • In the old days the teacher would rap someone's knuckles with a ruler if they misbehaved in class.From the entry rap someone's knuckles

Meaning of knuckle

  1. noun Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
  2. noun A mechanical joint.
  3. noun The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.

Full definition of knuckle

Questions about the plural of knuckle

What is the plural of knuckle?
The plural of knuckle is knuckles.
Is knuckle countable?
Knuckle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knuckle (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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