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Plural of pike

regular plural

The plural of pike is pikes.

Forms of pike

Singularpike /paɪk/
Pluralpikes
Countablecountable

Pikes in a sentence

  • At the front of her swing she pikes to wrap her legs under the low bar.1980, Karen Folger Jacobs, The Story of a Young Gymnast: Tracee Talavera, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 98
  • Then she flexes at the hips and folds herself in half (she pikes), and her rotation speeds up as if by magic.2013, Peter M[erton] McGinnis, Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise, 3rd edition, Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 196
  • The moment they had passed, the pikes clashed together horizontally to bar the gateway, and all but pinned an abdominal citizen that sought to wedge in along with them.From the entry abdominal
  • He is staggering as the other billmen lash their pikes at him.2014, Toby Clements, Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims: (Book 1). From the entry billman
  • Pikes) had not yet set in, the traditional tyrannophobia (Thomas Hobbes) had been partially set out of joint.2007, Hans Maier, Totalitarianism and Political Religions. From the entry tyrannophilia

Meaning of pike

  1. noun A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
  2. noun A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
  3. noun A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).

Full definition of pike

Questions about the plural of pike

What is the plural of pike?
The plural of pike is pikes.
Is pike countable?
Pike is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pike (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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