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Plural of roof

regular plural

The plural of roof is roofs.

Forms of roof

Singularroof /ɹuːf/
Pluralroofs /ɹuːvz/
Countablecountable

Roofs in a sentence

  • The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.From the entry pitched
  • We saw several houses whose roofs were falling off.From the entry whose
  • What stormy weather —the roofs are blowing off!From the entry blow
  • The serrations formed the hips and valleys of what looked like a series of miniature gabled roofs or rooflets.From the entry rooflet
  • Among its attractive features were decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs.2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52. From the entry pyramidal

Meaning of roof

  1. noun The external covering at the top of a building.
  2. noun The top external level of a building.
  3. noun The upper part of a cavity.

Full definition of roof

Questions about the plural of roof

What is the plural of roof?
The plural of roof is roofs.
Is roof countable?
Roof is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roof (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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