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Plural of toad

regular plural

The plural of toad is toads.

Forms of toad

Singulartoad /toʊd/
Pluraltoads
Countablecountable

Toads in a sentence

  • More than 50 volunteers wearing high-vis jackets and carrying torches and buckets spent 600 hours this year helping 1,547 toads and many other amphibians to safely cross Charlcombe Lane on their way to their breeding lake.2026 June, John Craven, “This unsung, unpaid army of workers is vital for rural Britain”, in BBC Countryfile, number 243, page 21
  • People who are afraid of toads have bufonophobia, or are called bufonophobic.2017, Martina Nicolls, Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry bufonophobia
  • How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment?2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 53. From the entry port
  • Moses started out his garden this year with only two toads.1905 June 15, A. J. R., “With the Long Bow”, in The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, Minn., retrieved 15 Feb 2017, page 14. From the entry debug
  • American toads still fill spring nights with prolonged chirrings, while tree-frogs trill from perches in trees and shrubs.2008, Cornelia F. Mutel, The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa, page 166. From the entry chirring

Meaning of toad

  1. noun An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
  2. noun A contemptible or unpleasant person.
  3. noun An ugly person.

Full definition of toad

Questions about the plural of toad

What is the plural of toad?
The plural of toad is toads.
Is toad countable?
Toad is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toad (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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