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Plural of latch

regular plural

The plural of latch is latches.

Forms of latch

Singularlatch /læt͡ʃ/
Plurallatches /ˈlætʃɪz/
Countablecountable

Latches in a sentence

  • The guard made sure all the latches were secure.From the entry latches
  • You will find no latches or clasps.2009, Trina Lane, Shield's Submissive. From the entry eternity collar
  • As pretacked bodies approach the automatic respot line on the body build trucks, the latches that hold them to the trucks are manually released.1979, William R. Tanner, Industrial Robots: Applications, page 154. From the entry respot

Meaning of latch

  1. verb To close or lock as if with a latch.
  2. verb To catch; lay hold of.
  3. verb To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).

Full definition of latch

Questions about the plural of latch

What is the plural of latch?
The plural of latch is latches.
Is latch countable?
Latch is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: latch (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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