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Plural of wendigo

irregular plural

The plural of wendigo is wendigo, wendigos or wendigoes.

Forms of wendigo

Singularwendigo /ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ/
Pluralwendigo /ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ/
wendigos
wendigoes
Countablecountable

Meaning of wendigo

  1. noun A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.
  2. noun Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).

Full definition of wendigo

Plural the same as the singular

Questions about the plural of wendigo

What is the plural of wendigo?
The plural of wendigo is wendigo, wendigos or wendigoes.
Which is correct, wendigos or wendigoes?
Both are used. wendigos is the more common of the two in English writing.
Is wendigo countable?
Wendigo is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wendigo (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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