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Plural of squid

regular plural

The plural of squid is squids or squid.

Forms of squid

Singularsquid /skwɪd/
Pluralsquids
squid /skwɪd/
Countablecountable

Squids in a sentence

  • Octopuses and squids are examples of animals that have blue blood.From the entry blue blood
  • Connie should probably be Queen, or maybe King of saucers and squids for obvious reasons.2004 April 17, polar bear, “Nine.”, in alt.slack (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jan 2026. From the entry doctrix

Meaning of squid

  1. noun Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles.
  2. noun A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
  3. noun A sailor in the Navy.

Full definition of squid

Questions about the plural of squid

What is the plural of squid?
The plural of squid is squids or squid.
Is squid countable?
Squid is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: squid (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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