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Plural of mist

regular plural

The plural of mist is mists.

Forms of mist

Singularmist /mɪst/
Pluralmists /mɪsts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Mists in a sentence

  • When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235
  • Rain clouds smirred the horizon, but for now the grey mists above were content to drift on.2022, John MacKay, The Road Dance. From the entry smirr
  • The “black mists” of Japan did not die with Yoshio Kodama.2012, David E. Kaplan, Alec Dubro, Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, page 97. From the entry kuromaku
  • But the mists had not managed to suck from them their testudinarious colours.2011, Angela Huth, Sun Child. From the entry testudinarious
  • Every childhood seems to have exactly such a juvenile in its midst and mists.2005, Markus Zusak, “The Kiss (a Childhood Decision Maker)”, in The Book Thief, Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, →ISBN; republished New York…. From the entry juvenile

Meaning of mist

  1. noun Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.).
  2. noun A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  3. noun Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

Full definition of mist

Questions about the plural of mist

What is the plural of mist?
The plural of mist is mists.
Is mist countable?
Mist is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mist (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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