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Plural of skin

regular plural

The plural of skin is skins.

Forms of skin

Singularskin /skɪn/
Pluralskins /skɪnz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Skins in a sentence

  • you know good leather, you know the best way to tan the hides and where to find the best skins2011, Iris Gower, The Wild Seed, Transworld
  • However, the misconception regarding skin hitboxes was created by a subset of players who believed that wearing thinner skins enhanced their gameplay.2024 March 16, Rishabh Sabarwal, “Fortnite hitboxes: Do skins have a competitive advantage?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 05...
  • They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather.From the entry steep
  • Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.From the entry doeskin
  • At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry crude

Meaning of skin

  1. noun The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  2. noun The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  3. noun The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

Full definition of skin

Questions about the plural of skin

What is the plural of skin?
The plural of skin is skins.
Is skin countable?
Skin is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skin (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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