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Plural of oat

regular plural

The plural of oat is oats.

Forms of oat

Singularoat /ˈəʊt/
Pluraloats /əʊts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Oats in a sentence

  • The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.
  • The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively few oats.1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 2
  • It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!From the entry crop
  • She stirred up a mixture of oats, barley, cheese, and Pramnian wine.From the entry Pramnian
  • Probably he's in a bad mood because he didn't get his oats last night.From the entry get one's oats

Meaning of oat

  1. noun Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
  2. noun Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
  3. noun The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.

Full definition of oat

Questions about the plural of oat

What is the plural of oat?
The plural of oat is oats.
Is oat countable?
Oat is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oat (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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