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Plural of mail

regular plural

The plural of mail is mails.

Forms of mail

Singularmail /meɪl/
Pluralmails /meɪlz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Mails in a sentence

  • All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263
  • Please look through those mails and confirm whether you received the one about scheduling.
  • With that, Elvin Mercado became the postmaster of Manhattan, ruling the mails from the palatial James A.2014 May 14, Andy Newman, “New York Today: Meet Your Postmaster”, in The New York Times. From the entry postmaster
  • Chain mails were also sometimes attached to the back of Viking helmets to protect the neck.2004, Step into the World of… The Vikings, Bath: Grandreams Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry chain mail
  • Can anyone tell me how to authorisate apache(nobody:nobody) to send mails ??2001 May 2, <boxfly@free.fr>, “Sendmail and php.”, in comp.mail.sendmail (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026. From the entry authorisate

Meaning of mail

  1. noun A bag or wallet.
  2. noun A bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
  3. noun The (physical) material conveyed by the postal service.

Full definition of mail

Questions about the plural of mail

What is the plural of mail?
The plural of mail is mails.
Is mail countable?
Mail is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mail (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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