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Plural of shortfall

regular plural

The plural of shortfall is shortfalls.

Forms of shortfall

Singularshortfall
Pluralshortfalls
Countablecountable

Shortfalls in a sentence

  • Plenty of us have experienced the shortfalls of other people’s incompetence.2023 March 8, Jamie Murray, “Weaponized incompetence is deeper than a TikTok trend”, in Michigan Daily. From the entry weaponized incompetence

Meaning of shortfall

  1. noun An instance of falling short, of not meeting a quota, an obligation, or more generally any expected target.
  2. noun The amount by which such a quota, obligation, etc., was missed.

Full definition of shortfall

Questions about the plural of shortfall

What is the plural of shortfall?
The plural of shortfall is shortfalls.
Is shortfall countable?
Shortfall is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortfall (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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