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Plural of touchdown

regular plural

The plural of touchdown is touchdowns.

Forms of touchdown

Singulartouchdown /ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/
Pluraltouchdowns
Countablecountable and uncountable

Touchdowns in a sentence

  • “I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009.2020 October 29, Richard Goldstein, “Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times
  • They put the game away by scoring three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.From the entry put away
  • Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.From the entry football
  • Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game.2007 October 23, Marvin Hogan, “Eagles soar past Leopards”, in Gainesville Daily Register. From the entry meanless
  • The game's over, and the Bills are winners in a 9-6 yawner that saw no touchdowns and sent the nation to bed early.1997 October 21, Mark Coatney, “Football: The Big Sleep”, in Time. From the entry yawner

Meaning of touchdown

  1. noun A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
  2. noun A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
  3. noun A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).

Full definition of touchdown

Questions about the plural of touchdown

What is the plural of touchdown?
The plural of touchdown is touchdowns.
Is touchdown countable?
Touchdown is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touchdown (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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