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Plural of turkey

regular plural

The plural of turkey is turkeys.

Forms of turkey

Singularturkey /ˈtɜːki/
Pluralturkeys
Countablecountable and uncountable

Turkeys in a sentence

  • There were a few turkeys.2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46
  • Sorry, there's been a run on turkeys and we're out of stock.From the entry out of stock
  • The turkeys are out of stock but we have some guinea fowl in the back.From the entry out of stock
  • It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.From the entry kill
  • Our mother kept a dozen chickens, two turkeys, a few ducks and a guinea fowl.[2002, David Omowale, A Season of Waiting, Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry yardfowl

Meaning of turkey

  1. noun The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
  2. noun A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
  3. noun A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.

Full definition of turkey

Questions about the plural of turkey

What is the plural of turkey?
The plural of turkey is turkeys.
Is turkey countable?
Turkey is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turkey (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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