Plural of no
regular plural
The plural of no is noes or nos.
Forms of no
| Singular | no /nəʊ/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | noes /nəʊz/ nos |
| Countable | countable |
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
- determiner Not any.
- determiner Hardly any.
- determiner Not any possibility or allowance of (something).
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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