Plural of rut
regular plural
The plural of rut is ruts.
Forms of rut
| Singular | rut /ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ] |
|---|---|
| Plural | ruts |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Ruts in a sentence
- Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut.2021, Redferrin, "Stuck". From the entry cut
- The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC. From the entry buffalo robe
- The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 128]. From the entry scabious
- When pavement repairs were made, they were usually effected by filling holes and ruts with brush, branches, and other rottable organic material.1998, Maxwell G. Lay, Handbook of Road Technology: Planning and pavements. From the entry rottable
- The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 284. From the entry blench
Meaning of rut
- noun Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season; the state or season in which this is experienced.
- noun The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- noun Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
Questions about the plural of rut
- What is the plural of rut?
- The plural of rut is ruts.
- Is rut countable?
- Rut is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rut (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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