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Plural of pest

regular plural

The plural of pest is pests.

Forms of pest

Singularpest /pɛst/
Pluralpests
Countablecountable

Pests in a sentence

  • From the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, pests and famines are reflections of the current administration’s lack of moral values and deviation from divine will.2020 March 24, Qing Zhu, Zhang Ming, “Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, China Faces Plague of Locusts”, in Minghui
  • Wooden structures in the tropics must be chemically treated to repel xylotomous pests.From the entry xylotomous
  • Since these pests are attracted to the smell of ripe fruit, harvest frequently.2015 July 15, “Green Fruit Beetle”, in The Daily Garden. From the entry green fruit beetle
  • Other species are recognized pests, and various buprestids attack either living or dead trees.2009, T. R. New, Beetles in Conservation, page 189. From the entry buprestid
  • “These pests can be there at subdetection levels for years if not decades,” said Mr.2007 June 18, Jesse Mckinley, “Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California Crops”, in New York Times. From the entry subdetection

Meaning of pest

  1. noun A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
  2. noun Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
  3. noun An annoying person, a nuisance.

Full definition of pest

Questions about the plural of pest

What is the plural of pest?
The plural of pest is pests.
Is pest countable?
Pest is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pest (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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