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Plural of raccoon

regular plural

The plural of raccoon is raccoons.

Forms of raccoon

Singularraccoon /ɹəˈkuːn/
Pluralraccoons
Countablecountable

Raccoons in a sentence

  • Raccoons, skunks, snakes, cats, and foxes are mesopredators.From the entry mesopredator
  • A Poulsbo woman who found herself surrounded by a gaze of raccoons Monday has regained her home.2024 October 10, Julia Dallas, “WDFW: Gaze of raccoons have dispersed after Poulsbo woman stopped feeding them”, in My Northwest, archived…. From the entry gaze
  • Her pale blue-blues glare out from a fishnetty pattern of eyeshadow that raccoons up her face.2016, Robert J[ason] Peterson, “Booker, Glenn”, in Omegaball, Los Angeles, Calif.: A California Coldblood Book, Rare Bird Books, →ISBN…. From the entry fishnetty
  • Young caimans are eaten by Jabirus, Wood Storks, Great Egrets, and raccoons.2010, Carrol L. Henderson, Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, page 164. From the entry caiman
  • Keep populations of predators, as foxes, raccoons, and minks within reasonable limits.1950, Circular. From the entry overtrap

Meaning of raccoon

  1. noun An omnivorous, nocturnal mammal native to the Americas, of the genus Procyon, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail.
  2. noun The common raccoon (Procyon lotor).
  3. noun Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.

Full definition of raccoon

Questions about the plural of raccoon

What is the plural of raccoon?
The plural of raccoon is raccoons.
Is raccoon countable?
Raccoon is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raccoon (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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