Plural of right
regular plural
The plural of right is rights.
Forms of right
| Singular | right /ɹaɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | rights /ɹaɪts/ |
| Countable | countable |
Rights in a sentence
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open.1913, Woman's Home Companion - Volume 40, page 40
- She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.From the entry bent
- All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.From the entry cloud
- Democracy must balance the rights of the few against the will of the many.From the entry many
Meaning of right
- adjective Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →.
- adjective Clockwise, particularly when describing a change in direction or orientation.
- adjective Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true. See also the interjection senses below.
Questions about the plural of right
- What is the plural of right?
- The plural of right is rights.
- Is right countable?
- Right is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: right (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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