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Plural of secret

regular plural

The plural of secret is secrets.

Forms of secret

Singularsecret /ˈsiː.kɹɪt/
Pluralsecrets /ˈsiː.kɹɪts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Secrets in a sentence

  • Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18
  • The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems
  • The leaks by Chelsea Manning showed the secrets of the US military.From the entry leak
  • I come from a close-knit family; we never keep secrets from one another.From the entry close-knit
  • After he was caught selling company secrets, it’s not surprising they made him walk the plank.From the entry walk the plank

Meaning of secret

  1. noun A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
  2. noun The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
  3. noun Something not understood or known.

Full definition of secret

Questions about the plural of secret

What is the plural of secret?
The plural of secret is secrets.
Is secret countable?
Secret is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secret (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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