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Plural of onset

regular plural

The plural of onset is onsets.

Forms of onset

Singularonset /ˈɒnˌsɛt/
Pluralonsets
Countablecountable

Onsets in a sentence

  • How unseasonably and unkindly it is, to interturb the State and Church with their Amalekitish onsets, when they are in their extreme pangs of travail with their lives.1968, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. From the entry interturb

Meaning of onset

  1. noun The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
  2. noun The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
  3. noun The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.

Full definition of onset

Questions about the plural of onset

What is the plural of onset?
The plural of onset is onsets.
Is onset countable?
Onset is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onset (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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