The Plural Form Of Roof

The plural of roof.

The plural form of roof.

Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building. The plural of roof is roofs or rooves. Rooves is an old secondary form and it still appears occasionally by analogy with other irregular plurals such as hooves but it is not common enough to be considered standard. Roofs is the plural of roof in all varieties of english.

Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days. Roofs constructed of flat sloped sections are referred to as pitched roofs. The primary job of most roofs is to keep out water. The noun roof adheres to the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in english shown in the table below.

The plural of roof is roofs. Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials. Australian children right up to the 1980s for example were brought up with the word.