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Plural of nine

regular plural

The plural of nine is nines.

Forms of nine

Singularnine /naɪn/
Pluralnines
Countablecountable

Nines in a sentence

  • Indeed, if a number does not have nines, you can remove or add zeroes at the end of a biography to get another biography of the same number.2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv, page 3
  • They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.
  • He arrived at the gala, dressed to the nines in his top hat and tails.From the entry dressed to the nines
  • He drew nines from the deck.From the entry nines
  • Three nines or 3N is 99.9%.From the entry nines

Meaning of nine

  1. numeral A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
  2. numeral Describing a group or set with nine elements.
  3. noun The digit or figure 9.

Full definition of nine

Questions about the plural of nine

What is the plural of nine?
The plural of nine is nines.
Is nine countable?
Nine is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nine (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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