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soots

soots is the plural of soot.

soots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of soot.

Meaning of soot

Noun

soot (usually uncountable, plural soots)

  1. (usually) Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
    Synonyms:
    lampblack

See all 2 meanings of soot

Proper noun capitalized: Soots

Soots (plural Sootses)

  1. A surname from Dutch.

Forms of soots

pluralSootses

Origin of soots

Possibly an altered spelling of Dutch Soodts.

Questions about soots

What does soots mean?
Soots means a surname from Dutch.
What is soots the plural of?
Soots is the plural of soot.
What part of speech is soots?
Soots is a proper noun.

Words near soots in the dictionary

  1. sootish
  2. sootless
  3. sootlessness
  4. sootlike
  5. sootproof
  6. soots
  7. Sootses
  8. sooty
  9. sooty albatross
  10. sooty albatrosses
  11. sooty bark disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soots (page history and authors); Soots (page history and authors); soot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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