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Plural of literacy

regular plural

The plural of literacy is literacies.

Forms of literacy

Singularliteracy /ˈlɪtəɹəsi/
Pluralliteracies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Literacies in a sentence

  • One of the ways to work the hyphens is through curricula that engage students in writing and inquiry using both students' multidialectal repertoires and the schools' literacies.2011, Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer, Peter Smagorinsky, Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research, page 338. From the entry work the hyphens

Meaning of literacy

  1. noun The ability to read and write.
  2. noun The ability to understand and evaluate something.

Full definition of literacy

Questions about the plural of literacy

What is the plural of literacy?
The plural of literacy is literacies.
Is literacy countable?
Literacy is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: literacy (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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