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Plural of regret

regular plural

The plural of regret is regrets.

Forms of regret

Singularregret /ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/
Pluralregrets
Countablecountable and uncountable

Regrets in a sentence

  • Regrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention.From the entry a few
  • Then in a cautious drone, she looked away and began to share her heart-spent regrets.2014, Catherine Kaufman, Beloved Healer, →ISBN. From the entry heart-spent
  • “Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital,” the office said in a statement.2025 August 25, Isabel Kershner, Aaron Boxerman, Ameera Harouda, quoting office of Benjamin Netanyahu, “Israeli Hospital Strike Kills 20…. From the entry mishap
  • He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future.2023 December 27, Philip Haigh, “All eyes are on the DfT as rolling stock concerns deepen”, in RAIL, number 999, page 19. From the entry third
  • Did he have any regrets about signing “I’ll be back”?2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic. From the entry congregant

Meaning of regret

  1. verb To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead.
  2. verb To feel sorry about (any thing).
  3. verb To miss; to feel the loss or absence of; to mourn.

Full definition of regret

Questions about the plural of regret

What is the plural of regret?
The plural of regret is regrets.
Is regret countable?
Regret is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: regret (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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