Plural of rout
regular plural
The plural of rout is routs.
Forms of rout
| Singular | rout /ɹaʊt/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | routs /ɹaʊts/ |
| Countable | countable |
Routs in a sentence
- We spot several routs of snails moving around, half buried in the sandy beach.2022 December 15, Tania Banerjee, “Offbeat Mumbai: A shorewalk in Juhu”, in Azure Sky Follows
- A tribe of North Carolina Indians routs the Ku Klux Klan.1958 February 3, “Clipped Quips”, in Kilgore News Herald, 28th year, number 29, Kilgore, Tex., page 4. From the entry deluxe
- It initiates the tactical conception which routs Black's hopes.1961 February, Max Euwe, “How to Win in the Ending”, in Chess Review. From the entry initiate
- From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.2007, Elinor DeWire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page 200. From the entry sleuth
Meaning of rout
- noun A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
- noun A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.
- noun A group or assortment of snails.
Questions about the plural of rout
- What is the plural of rout?
- The plural of rout is routs.
- Is rout countable?
- Rout is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rout (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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