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spreadsheets

spreadsheets is the plural of spreadsheet.

spreadsheets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spreadsheet.

Meaning of spreadsheet

Noun

spreadsheet (plural spreadsheets)

  1. A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
    • The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. A document created with such an application.
    • A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.2009, Fred Vallance-Jones, David McKie, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49
    Synonyms:
    worksheet
  3. (dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.

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Questions about spreadsheets

What is spreadsheets the plural of?
Spreadsheets is the plural of spreadsheet.

Words near spreadsheets in the dictionary

  1. spreadsheeted
  2. spreadsheeter
  3. spreadsheeters
  4. spreadsheeting
  5. spreadsheetlike
  6. spreadsheets
  7. spreadsheety
  8. spreadwing
  9. spreadwings
  10. spready
  11. spreagh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spreadsheets (page history and authors); spreadsheet (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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