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Plural of typhoon

regular plural

The plural of typhoon is typhoons.

Forms of typhoon

Singulartyphoon /taɪˈfuːn/
Pluraltyphoons
Countablecountable

Typhoons in a sentence

  • Typhoons are not infrequent, and earthquakes occur in cycles of six years throughout the islands.1945, The Indian Review, volume 46, numbers 7-12, page 588. From the entry blightingly
  • It is to the west of the city on the Jin River, and far enough inland from Quanzhou Bay to be reasonably safe from typhoons.2010, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, “China: To the Mosque of the Phoenix”, in Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra, John…. From the entry jin
  • But this weather-beaten little island (Peng Chau seems to get particularly pummeled by the later summer typhoons) offers an unhampered look at traditional Chinese sea-village life.1985 December 8, William Schwalbe, “45 MINUTES FROM HONG KONG”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May…. From the entry Peng Chau

Meaning of typhoon

  1. noun A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
  2. noun A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
  3. verb To swirl like a hurricane.

Full definition of typhoon

Questions about the plural of typhoon

What is the plural of typhoon?
The plural of typhoon is typhoons.
Is typhoon countable?
Typhoon is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typhoon (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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