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Plural of yardstick

regular plural

The plural of yardstick is yardsticks.

Forms of yardstick

Singularyardstick /ˈjɑːdˌstɪk/
Pluralyardsticks
Countablecountable

Yardsticks in a sentence

  • Goodbye to Word’s prim rulers, its officious yardsticks, its self-serious formatting toolbar with cryptic abbreviations (ComicSansMS?) and trinkety icons.2008 January 6, Virginia Heffernan, “An Interface of One’s Own”, in New York Times. From the entry trinkety

Meaning of yardstick

  1. noun A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.
  2. noun A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.

Full definition of yardstick

Questions about the plural of yardstick

What is the plural of yardstick?
The plural of yardstick is yardsticks.
Is yardstick countable?
Yardstick is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yardstick (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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