Plural of wren
regular plural
The plural of wren is wrens.
Forms of wren
| Singular | wren /ɹɛn/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | wrens |
| Countable | countable |
Wrens in a sentence
- Blue wrens and spoggies had been nibbling on the food they had left outside.2011, K. J. Cherry, A Piece of My Heart, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry spoggy
- The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh, page 46. From the entry teakettle
- Jenny wrens is 'alf the size of spadgers and they never sit still for one second.1977, Roald Dahl, The Swan. From the entry spadger
- Suboscines (Tyranni) are mostly found in the Neotropics, whereas the small New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) are limited to, you guessed it, New Zealand.2016 October 19, Hanneke Meijer, “Why you can thank geology for your morning songbird chorus”, in The Guardian. From the entry New Zealand wren
- Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.1984, Virginia Wildlife, volume 45, Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. From the entry woodpecker
Meaning of wren
- noun Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).
- noun Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
- noun Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.
Questions about the plural of wren
- What is the plural of wren?
- The plural of wren is wrens.
- Is wren countable?
- Wren is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wren (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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