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Plural of tap

regular plural

The plural of tap is taps.

Forms of tap

Singulartap /tæp/
Pluraltaps /tæps/
Countablecountable

Taps in a sentence

  • The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.
  • There's a hierarchy to the taps in your house, and even if you don't observe it consciously you probably abide by it in some way.2023 January 26, Jack Vening, “The tap you drink from in your house says a lot about you”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian...
  • Between the leaky taps and the peeling wallpaper, there isn't much about this house to appeal to a buyer.From the entry between
  • Mushroomcore taps into our collective craving for nature, nostalgia and a bit of eccentric charm.2025 July 14, Unattributed, “Fashionable fungi: How to get the mushroomcore look in your home”, in Good Homes Magazine, archived from the…. From the entry mushroomcore
  • They make nuts, bolts, tapping screws, fasteners, anchors, togglers, drills, taps, rings, sockets and pop rivets.2002, Stephen Ausherman, Typical Pigs, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry toggler

Meaning of tap

  1. noun A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
  2. noun An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1, noun sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
  3. noun A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.

Full definition of tap

Questions about the plural of tap

What is the plural of tap?
The plural of tap is taps.
Is tap countable?
Tap is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tap (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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