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text files

text files is the plural of text file.

Meaning of text file

Noun

text file (plural text files)

  1. A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.
  2. A datafile in a character encoding that allows it to be read in a nonspecialized text editor.

Questions about text files

What is text files the plural of?
Text files is the plural of text file.

Words near text files in the dictionary

  1. text door neighbour
  2. text door neighbours
  3. text editor
  4. text editors
  5. text file
  6. text files
  7. text hand
  8. text hands
  9. text hook
  10. text hooker
  11. text hookers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: text files (page history and authors); text file (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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