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100 Words With Unusual Plurals

June 8, 2026

100 Words With Unusual Plurals

No. Item Definition
1. addendum plural: addenda or addendums
2. agendum plural: agenda
3. alga plural: algae
4. alumnus plural: alumni
5. analysis plural: analyses
6. appendix plural: appendixes or appendices
7. automaton plural: automata
8. axis plural: axes
9. bacillus plural: bacilli
10. bacterium plural: bacteria
11. basis plural: bases
12. beau plural: beaux or beaus
13. brother plural: brothers or brethren
14. bureau plural: bureaus or bureaux
15. businessman plural: businessmen
16. businesswoman plural: businesswomen
17. cactus plural: cacti or cactuses
18. child plural: children
19. consortium plural: consortia or consortiums
20. corpus plural: corpora or corpuses
21. cow plural: cows or kine
22. crisis plural: crises
23. criterion plural: criteria
24. curriculum plural: curricula or curriculums
25. datum plural: data
26. diagnosis plural: diagnoses
27. die plural: dice
28. dogma plural: dogmas or dogmata
29. ellipsis plural: ellipses
30. emphasis plural: emphases
31. Englishman plural: Englishmen
32. erratum plural: errata
33. father-in-law plural: fathers-in-law
34. fireman plural: firemen
35. focus plural: foci or focuses
36. foot plural: feet
37. formula plural: formulas or formulae
38. Frenchman plural: Frenchmen
39. fungus plural: fungi or funguses
40. ganglion plural: ganglia or ganglions
41. gateau plural: gateaux or gateaus
42. genius plural: geniuses or genii
43. gentleman plural: gentlemen
44. genus plural: genera
45. goose plural: geese
46. hanger-on plural: hangers-on
47. heir apparent plural: heirs apparent
48. hippopotamus plural: hippopotamuses or hippopotami
49. hypothesis plural: hypotheses
50. index plural: indexes or indices
51. larva plural: larvae
52. lemma plural: lemmas or lemmata
53. louse plural: lice
54. man plural: men
55. manservant plural: menservants
56. matrix plural: matrixes or matrices
57. medium plural: media or mediums
58. memorandum plural: memoranda or memorandums
59. millennium plural: millennia or millenniums
60. mother-in-law plural: mothers-in-law
61. mouse plural: mice
62. nebula plural: nebulae or nebulas
63. neurosis plural: neuroses
64. notary public plural: notaries public
65. nucleus plural: nuclei
66. oasis plural: oases
67. ovum plural: ova
68. ox plural: oxen
69. parenthesis plural: parentheses
70. passerby plural: passersby
71. penny plural: pence or pennies
72. person plural: people
73. phenomenon plural: phenomena
74. plateau plural: plateaus or plateaux
75. poet laureate plural: poets laureate
76. policeman plural: policemen
77. radius plural: radii or radiuses
78. runner-up plural: runners-up
79. salesman plural: salesmen
80. saleswoman plural: saleswomen
81. sergeant major plural: sergeants major
82. sister-in-law plural: sisters-in-law
83. stimulus plural: stimuli
84. stratum plural: strata
85. syllabus plural: syllabi or syllabuses
86. synthesis plural: syntheses
87. tableau plural: tableaux or tableaus
88. terminus plural: termini or terminuses
89. testis plural: testes
90. thesaurus plural: thesauri or thesauruses
91. thesis plural: theses
92. tooth plural: teeth
93. trauma plural: traumas or traumata
94. vertebra plural: vertebrae
95. vertex plural: vertexes or vertices
96. viscus plural: viscera
97. vita plural: vitae
98. vortex plural: vortexes or vortices
99. woman plural: women
100. workman plural: workmen
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