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Plural of mile

regular plural

The plural of mile is miles.

Forms of mile

Singularmile /maɪ̯l/
Pluralmiles /maɪlz/
Countablecountable

Less standard forms: mile (colloquial).

Miles in a sentence

  • Turn left in 1.2 miles.
  • 3.6 km is about 2 miles.
  • We were cruising along at well over the speed limit of fifty miles per hour.From the entry at
  • It didn't seem like ten miles, but actually it was that far.From the entry that
  • He went tearing down the hill at 90 miles per hour.From the entry tear

Meaning of mile

  1. noun The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
  2. noun Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
  3. noun Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.

Full definition of mile

Questions about the plural of mile

What is the plural of mile?
The plural of mile is miles.
Is mile countable?
Mile is a countable noun.
Is mile correct?
mile is marked colloquial in Wiktionary. The usual plural of mile is miles.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mile (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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