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The preferred spelling is octopi. That is a Latin grammatical form, borrowed by English.

Sorry, David6023, you are DEAD WRONG again:"Octopodes" is the correct plural of octopus. 'Octopi' is a math term meaning 'pi to the eighth power'. Hoot mon, get the T-shirt: it's a hoot itself!

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How do you spell octopi?

That is the correct spelling of the plural of "octopus", which is "octopi".(not all -us words form the -i plural in English, e.g. fungi but hippopotamuses)


How do you make octopus plural?

It could be octopuses or octopi


How do you spell octopus?

That is the correct spelling of "octopus" (a tentacled cephalopod sea creature).


What is the possessive of octopus?

Octopuses or octopodes. The Anglicized (and most common) plural form of octopus is octopuses. Although it is often supposed that octopi is the 'correct' plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error. Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its 'correct' plural would logically be octopodes.


What are the two plural forms of the noun octopus?

Octopi and octopuses are both accepted plural forms for the singular octopus.


Is octopuses a plural noun?

Dictionaries now show both octopuses and octopi as the plural for octopus. In fact, when I spell checked this answer, the word octopi was highlighted for misspelling, the word octopuses was not. Either is correct.


Is the word octopi a singular or plural?

The word 'octopi' is the plural form of the noun 'octopus'.The alternate plural form 'octopuses' is also generally accepted.


What is the plural noun of octopus?

octopods


What is the foreign plural of octopus?

octopuses


How do you spell octupus?

octopus


Why don't sentences end the way you think it octopus?

because the plural of octopus is octopuses


What is a plural noun for octopus?

Octopi, I believe...