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Plural of shape

regular plural

The plural of shape is shapes.

Forms of shape

Singularshape /ˈʃeɪ̯p/
Pluralshapes /ʃeɪps/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Shapes in a sentence

  • A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized...
  • The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.From the entry pottery
  • The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.From the entry plesiohedron
  • The shapes of clouds will often remind us of animals.From the entry will
  • He saw distorted, dancing shapes in a nightmarish swevening.From the entry swevening

Meaning of shape

  1. noun The status or condition of something.
  2. noun Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
  3. noun A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.

Full definition of shape

Questions about the plural of shape

What is the plural of shape?
The plural of shape is shapes.
Is shape countable?
Shape is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shape (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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