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Plural of wrench

regular plural

The plural of wrench is wrenches.

Forms of wrench

Singularwrench /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃ/
Pluralwrenches /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃɪz/
Countablecountable

Wrenches in a sentence

  • There were two monkey wrenches for that, sitting in a bucket.2010, A. M. Murray, The Secret of the Serpent Mound, unnumbered page. From the entry monkey wrench
  • Its actual efforts at coordination were from the start so many wrenches in the works.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry wrench in the works
  • Obviously, these bicycle wrenches are quite as useful around an automobile as they are around a bicycle.1914 January 15, [Editors], “Usefulness of bicycle wrenches”, in Motor World, volume 38, number 4, page 34. From the entry bicycle wrench
  • Outside in the evening a wattlebird wrenches pieces from the brush tree at the end of the veranda.2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 285. From the entry wattlebird
  • I kept the stash under my bed, tools mostly—a cordless drill, a set of wrenches, screwdrivers, some knives.2012, Mar'ce Merrell, Wicked Sweet: A Novel, Feiwel & Friends, →ISBN. From the entry sticky finger

Meaning of wrench

  1. noun A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
  2. noun An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
  3. noun A trick or artifice.

Full definition of wrench

Questions about the plural of wrench

What is the plural of wrench?
The plural of wrench is wrenches.
Is wrench countable?
Wrench is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wrench (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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