Fairly self-explanatory question: can the word “peace” be pluralised? For those that are interested, the reason I ask is because a coworker just scored 60 points against me with "peaces". Triple letter, and triple word score!


Solution 1:

First off, if you're playing Scrabble, then you need to look up your word in the official Scrabble dictionary, not some random site on the internet.

However, for normal English usage "peaces" is not a word. The noun peace is a mass noun and an abstract noun and cannot be pluralized.

Solution 2:

There are just a handful of uses of plural peaces in COCA:

…more than 20 years of having covered this story and watching so many false peaces, phony starts, so much posturing on all sides, that I must say I come to it with, you know, a certain degree of cynicism…

As somebody who has tried to negotiate many peaces, how do you get out of a situation like that, where both sides are confident it's the other side's fault, and meanwhile, the violence and the strikes just escalate?

(Peaces also occasionally sees use as a pun on pieces, as in 24peaces.org and the headline “The missing peaces”.)

The language described by the OSPD bears only a passing resemblance to English. It includes plenty of words that are ten times as ridiculous as peaces. (I mean, vrow? Seriously? Oh, I see it’s a variant spelling of vrouw. Well OK then.)