Plural of pun
regular plural
The plural of pun is puns.
Forms of pun
| Singular | pun /pʌn/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | puns /pʌnz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Puns in a sentence
- "If you want beer puns, I can go on forever," Mac said, raising his pint glass.2018, Ellie Alexander, The Pint of No Return - A Mystery. From the entry beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
- Puns so eye-rollingly BAD, they're an abomination to the vampire's refined senses.2013, Rita Harris, Heather Harwood, Your Guide to Spotting and Outing Bloodsuckers at Work, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry vampireyness
- Everything was a labyrinthine amalgam of languages, a towering Babel of puns and glossolalia.2012, Andy Martin, “Text Messenger”, in Literary Review, London: The Literary Review & Quarto, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 404. From the entry glossolalia
- It must be eggsasperating reading all these eggscentric and eggsotic puns on eggs.2012, Lederer, Richard, Cleverly comical animal jokes, page 39. From the entry eggstatic
- I have not said much about Musica Ficta's multiple puns, parodies, oxymorous games with language.1993, Veronica Brady, Westerly, page 130. From the entry oxymorous
Meaning of pun
- verb To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
- verb To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
- noun A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
Questions about the plural of pun
- What is the plural of pun?
- The plural of pun is puns.
- Is pun countable?
- Pun is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pun (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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