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Plural of lettuce

regular plural

The plural of lettuce is lettuces.

Forms of lettuce

Singularlettuce /ˈlɛt.ɪs/
Plurallettuces
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lettuces in a sentence

  • Or switch to heat-tolerant lettuces, like oak leaf and buttercrunch.2008 April 17, Anne Raver, “Meet the Endive Before Eating It”, in New York Times. From the entry buttercrunch
  • Assistants were grating cheese, making gravies, tossing lettuces.1989, Paul Zindel, Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, page 29. From the entry subchef
  • But he is destroying the lettuces I raised and planted.1975, John Steinbeck, A Life in Letters. From the entry lettuceless
  • The Tudors mostly made theirs with whatever homegrown vegetables they could grow themselves, from lettuces and cucumbers, to onions and even plant and flower seeds.2023 September 30, Bethan Watts, Inside the Tudor Home: Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century, Pen and Sword History, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry Tudor
  • He owned four large beds in which he grew romaines, lettuces, escaroles, and almost all the known species of these edible leaves.1903, Guy de Maupassant, “The Development of Paul”, in Une vie: Or The History of a Heart: A Novel (The Life Work of Henri René Guy de…. From the entry escarole

Meaning of lettuce

  1. noun An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves.
  2. noun The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
  3. noun United States paper currency; dollars.

Full definition of lettuce

Questions about the plural of lettuce

What is the plural of lettuce?
The plural of lettuce is lettuces.
Is lettuce countable?
Lettuce is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lettuce (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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