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Plural of pit

regular plural

The plural of pit is pits.

Forms of pit

Singularpit /pɪt/
Pluralpits /pɪts/
Countablecountable

Pits in a sentence

  • The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
  • Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
  • Jones enters the pits to get new rubber.From the entry rubber
  • Maharajah and the Sepoys pits a single royal amazon for white against a standard chess army for black.From the entry royal
  • This whole experience has been the pits.From the entry the pits

Meaning of pit

  1. noun A hole in the ground.
  2. noun An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
  3. noun The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.

Full definition of pit

Questions about the plural of pit

What is the plural of pit?
The plural of pit is pits.
Is pit countable?
Pit is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pit (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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