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Plural of missile

regular plural

The plural of missile is missiles.

Forms of missile

Singularmissile /ˈmɪs.aɪl/
Pluralmissiles
Countablecountable

Missiles in a sentence

  • The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
  • Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.2012, Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126
  • Long-range missiles can shoot down any planes before they can even be seen.From the entry long-range
  • Missiles exhausted, the pilot was forced to close and dogfight with his opponent.From the entry dogfight
  • When you're in the air force you have to be prepared to launch missiles at people from the air.From the entry air force

Meaning of missile

  1. noun Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
  2. noun A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.

Full definition of missile

Questions about the plural of missile

What is the plural of missile?
The plural of missile is missiles.
Is missile countable?
Missile is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missile (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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