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Plural of scar

regular plural

The plural of scar is scars.

Forms of scar

Singularscar /skɑɹ/
Pluralscars /skɑɹz/
Countablecountable

Scars in a sentence

  • Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people, page 29
  • And black skin scars badly.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 161
  • The skin is the substance that wrinkles, shows age, stretches, scars and cuts.From the entry wrinkle
  • She still bore the scars of a very acrimonious divorce, which made her wary of new commitments.From the entry bear the scars
  • She still bears the scars from a cycling accident.From the entry bear

Meaning of scar

  1. noun A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
  2. noun A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
  3. noun Any permanent mark resulting from damage.

Full definition of scar

Questions about the plural of scar

What is the plural of scar?
The plural of scar is scars.
Is scar countable?
Scar is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scar (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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