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Plural of no

regular plural

The plural of no is noes or nos.

Forms of no

Singularno /nəʊ/
Pluralnoes /nəʊz/
nos
Countablecountable

Noes and nos in a sentence

  • The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos.
  • Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time.1983, Sasha Moorsom, chapter 5, in In the Shadow of the Paradise Tree, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Henley-on-Thame, Oxfordshire: Routledge &...
  • And Job wuz liek “Oh noes!2010, Martin Grondin, “Teh Story ov Job”, in LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, Ulysses Press…. From the entry oh noes
  • The results of the poll were inconclusive. We got two yeses, three nos, and four maybes.From the entry maybe
  • The direct descendant of this form is the Slavic aorist: Sb.-Cr. nȍsī, dȍnosī.1993, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “The Slavic i-verbs with an excursus on the Indo-European ē-verbs”, in Bela Brogyanyi, Reiner Lipp…. From the entry descendant

Meaning of no

  1. determiner Not any.
  2. determiner Hardly any.
  3. determiner Not any possibility or allowance of (something).

Full definition of no

Questions about the plural of no

What is the plural of no?
The plural of no is noes or nos.
Which is correct, noes or nos?
Both are used. nos is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is no countable?
No is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: no (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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