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Plural of wild

regular plural

The plural of wild is wilds.

Forms of wild

Singularwild /ˈwaɪ̯ld/
Pluralwilds
Countablecountable

Wilds in a sentence

  • It was an improbable name in connection with Bertie, particularly in the wilds of Kent.1979, Penelope Mortimer, About Time, Allan Lane, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry Diane
  • I've been down in the wilds since you were with me."1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry cast iron
  • He had walked the wilds of Imokoi before, he had pierced rakshas illusions, seenthrough the mist of demonic dwimmer-craft centuries ago.2005, Samit Basu, Manticore's Secret. From the entry dwimmercraft
  • "For a girl right out of the wilds like you are," she said finally, "you've got an awful lot of savvey."1920, Rebecca Newman Porter, The Girl from Four Corners, page 135. From the entry savvey
  • She spends her free time dancing, hiking the wilds of the Great Wall, biking through the lake district, and munching on jianbings in her hutong.2006 summer, Julia Herwood, Athenia Fischer, “Class Notes”, in Matt Jennings, editor, Middlebury Magazine, volume 80, number 3…. From the entry jianbing

Meaning of wild

  1. adjective Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
  2. adjective Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
  3. adjective From or relating to wild creatures.

Full definition of wild

Questions about the plural of wild

What is the plural of wild?
The plural of wild is wilds.
Is wild countable?
Wild is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wild (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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