Plural of worm
regular plural
The plural of worm is worms.
Forms of worm
| Singular | worm /wɜːm/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | worms /vɔːmz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Worms in a sentence
- ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- Those little wriggling worms are the larvae of flies who laid eggs here.
- As a kid, he used to catch sunnies with a cane pole and garden worms in the stream behind the house.From the entry sunnies
- Questioning the decision would definitely open a can of worms.From the entry can of worms
- I don't mind worms, but spiders give me the heebie-jeebies.From the entry heebie-jeebies
Meaning of worm
- noun A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- noun More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms.
- noun Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake (cf. “dragon”; blindworm, slowworm, “legless lizard”), snail, or caterpillar.
Questions about the plural of worm
- What is the plural of worm?
- The plural of worm is worms.
- Is worm countable?
- Worm is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: worm (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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