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Plural of rind

regular plural

The plural of rind is rinds.

Forms of rind

Singularrind /ɹaɪnd/
Pluralrinds /ɹʌɪndz/
Countableusually uncountable

Rinds in a sentence

  • Additional products include pretzels, regular and cheese puffcorn, cheese curls, corn chips, tortilla chips, pork rinds and salsa dip.2010, Food & Beverage Market Place, Grey House Publishing, volume 1, 1127. From the entry puffcorn
  • Children learned early not to throw watermelon rinds where the chickens could peck them: pecking watermelon rinds gave chickens sorehead.1977, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Southern Cooking to Remember, page 106. From the entry sorehead
  • From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.c. 2009, Janice N. Harrington, Possum. From the entry rotting
  • Some people avoid goat’s milk cheeses because they taste strong or “goaty,” and these people probably should avoid washed rinds at all cost.2008, Steve Ehlers, Jeanette Hurt, “Part 2: Old World Favorites”, “Chapter 5: French Cheeses”, in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cheeses of…. From the entry caseophile
  • She tossed the pork rinds into the trash can and settled on some cheese puffcorn curls—not the healthiest things in the world but an improvement upon the former.2006, Peyton Mathie, chapter 27, in Hayden's Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry puffcorn

Meaning of rind

  1. noun Tree bark.
  2. noun A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
  3. noun The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind".

Full definition of rind

Questions about the plural of rind

What is the plural of rind?
The plural of rind is rinds.
Is rind countable?
Rind is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rind (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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