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Plural of potato

regular plural

The plural of potato is potatoes.

Forms of potato

Singularpotato /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/
Pluralpotatoes /pəˈteɪ.təʊz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Potatoes in a sentence

  • What was that about potatoes?1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.4, at p.34
  • She was untidily dressed as usual and there were potatoes in both heels.1943, Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger
  • She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.From the entry gas
  • As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.From the entry done
  • You don’t like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?From the entry then

Meaning of potato

  1. noun The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum.
  2. noun The plant that produces this tuber.
  3. noun A sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas).

Full definition of potato

Questions about the plural of potato

What is the plural of potato?
The plural of potato is potatoes.
Is potato countable?
Potato is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: potato (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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