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Plural of nickel

regular plural

The plural of nickel is nickels.

Forms of nickel

Singularnickel /ˈnɪk.əl/
Pluralnickels
Countablecountable and uncountable

Nickels in a sentence

  • Colonel Hazeltine still had trouble persuading air commanders to drop the nickels.1945, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 217, Curtis Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 79
  • Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare.1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, →ISBN, page 495
  • Even children have been proffering up their nickels for the charity drive.From the entry proffer up
  • Don't take any wooden nickels warned innocents going abroad to steer clear of con artists.2008, Rosemarie Ostler, Let's Talk Turkey, page 66. From the entry wooden nickel
  • It took quite some time to collect enough wooden nickels to equal anything of value.1998, Jim Feldbush, Nancy Beck Irland, Carolyn Sutton, Eye-openers. From the entry wooden nickel

Meaning of nickel

  1. noun A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
  2. noun A coin worth 5 cents.
  3. noun Five dollars.

Full definition of nickel

Questions about the plural of nickel

What is the plural of nickel?
The plural of nickel is nickels.
Is nickel countable?
Nickel is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nickel (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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