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Started Grammarflex(ing) in 2022—been a word nerd and writing enthusiast ever since. (BA, MA in phil).

What’s the Plural of Analysis?

Analysis is singular; analyses is plural. Analysis comes from Greek, and uses -ses to show a pl. n. form.

Cactuses and cacti are both accepted to mean more than one of these sturdy desert plants, the cactus.

Crisis, which comes from Greek, is crises as a plural noun form. Crises is the only correct plural of crisis.

Diagnosis plural is diagnoses. Singular is diagnosis.

The plural of leaf is leaves. That’s the only plural for a leaf.

Octopuses is most commonly accepted as the plural of this eight-limbed sea creature, the octopus.

Quit horsin’ around, both hooves and hoofs are correct plural forms of the hoof.

Women is the only correct plural form of the singular noun, woman.

Make no mouse-take, the plural of mouse is mice, when referring to the rodent. For a computer mouse, both computer mouses and computer mice works.

The Vulpes vulpes, or fox, plural is foxes.