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Plural of soil

regular plural

The plural of soil is soils.

Forms of soil

Singularsoil /sɔɪl/
Pluralsoils
Countablecountable and uncountable

Soils in a sentence

  • Precleaning treatments in combination with warewashing were evaluated for removing tahini soils.2026 February, Jeremiah Kidd, David Buckley, Peter Teska, Amandeep K. Sandhu, Tina Gettis, Marc Boyer, Laurie Williams, Lauren S. Jackson...
  • Leptosols are unattractive soils for rainfed agriculture because of their inability to hold water.From the entry leptosol
  • Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.From the entry shell sand
  • In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.From the entry agglutinate
  • Gravelly and sandy soils may be leachy.From the entry leachy

Meaning of soil

  1. noun A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  2. noun The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
  3. noun The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.

Full definition of soil

Questions about the plural of soil

What is the plural of soil?
The plural of soil is soils.
Is soil countable?
Soil is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soil (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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