Uncountable Nouns! An uncountable noun is a word which names a place, item or person but cannot be counted, for example air, water or people. Uncountable nouns are commonly used within the English language and of course, there are rules involved with their use. It is important that you understand how to correctly use an uncountable noun so that your sentences are properly formed and sound fluid.
In this section, we are going to be looking further into the subject of uncountable nouns and how they work.
Learn an extensive list of over 450 common uncountablenounspresented in alphabetical order with ESL printable worksheets.
What is an Uncountable Noun?
Countable nounsare common nouns that can take a plural, can combine with numerals or counting quantifiers, and can take an indefinite article such as a or an. Examples of count nouns arebook, orange, cat, animal, man…
- The outside of anorangeis bitter, but the inside is sweet.
- Acatwas basking on the window sill.
Uncountable Nounsare substances, concepts, materials, information… that we cannot divide into separate elements. They can’t be counted.
For example, we cannot count “water“. We can count “a glass of water” or “a bottle of water” or “1 litre of water“, but we cannot count “water” itself.
- I immerse my clothes in thewater.
- Could I havea glass of water, please?
Uncountable Nouns List A – Z
Below you can find a list of the most common non-count nouns in English. Somenouns are both countable and uncountable. They have been put in bold.
Uncountable Nouns List: A – D
A
- Advice
- Aggression
- Assistance
- Attention
- Accommodation
- Advertising
- Air
- Athletics
- Access
- Adulthood
- Alcohol
- Applause
- Agriculture
- Atmosphere
- Anger
- Art
- Absence
- Aid
- Arithmetic
- Age
B
- Beauty
- Beef
- Bravery
- Business
- Blood
- Botany
- Bacon
- Baggage
- Ballet
- Butter
- Biology
- Beer
- Bread
- Behaviour
C
- Cake
- Cash
- Chaos
- Clothing
- Confidence
- Compassion
- Calm
- Corruption
- Courage
- Comprehension
- Cheese
- Currency
- Carbon
- Cardboard
- Chalk
- Chess
- Coal
- Commerce
- Confusion
- Cookery
- Countryside
- Crockery
- Cutlery
- Chocolate
- Content
- 棉花
- Childhood
- Coffee
D
- Danger
- Data
- Dancing
- Democracy
- Damage
- Darkness
- Determination
- Delight
- Depression
- Driving
- Dignity
- Dessert
- Design
- Dust
- Distribution
- Dirt
- Duty
Uncountable Nouns List: E – H
E
- Education
- Economics
- Equipment
- Earth
- Expense
- Energy
- Electricity
- Enthusiasm
- Environment
- Enjoyment
- Energy
- Envy
- Evil
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Evolution
- Existence
- Ethics
- Evidence
- Employment
- Experience
F
- Failure
- Fire
- Fiction
- Fashion
- Forgiveness
- Faith
- Flour
- Flu
- Fear
- Fun
- Fame
- Freedom
- Food
- Finance
- Fruit
- Fuel
- Friendship
- Furniture
- Flesh
G
- Gasoline
- Genetics
- Garbage
- Growth
- Grief
- Grammar
- Garlic
- Gossip
- Gold
- Gymnastics
- Glass
- Grass
- Golf
- Gratitude
- Ground
- Guilt
H
- Harm
- Hair
- Hardware
- Hydrogen
- Help
- Happiness
- Health
- Hate
- Hope
- Hospitality
- Homework
- Heat
- Hatred
- Hunger
- Honey
- Humour
- Honesty
- Height
- Housework
- History
UncountableNouns List: I – O
I
- Ice
- Imagination
- Information
- Independence
- Infrastructure
- Ice cream
- Importance
- Intelligence
- Industry
- Irony
- Injustice
- Innocence
- Iron
- Insurance
- Inflation
J
- Judo
- Jealousy
- Jam
- Jewelery
- Joy
- Juice
- Justice
K
- Kindness
- Knowledge
- Karate
L
- Laughter
- Labour
- Lava
- Livestock
- Luggage
- Lightning
- Land
- Leather
- Linguistics
- Light
- Loneliness
- Lack
- Litter
- Luck
- Love
- Leisure
- Logic
- Literature
M
- Machinery
- Mankind
- Marriage
- Money
- Magic
- Marble
- Mercy
- Music
- Meat
- Management
- Mathematics
- Moonlight
- Methane
- Milk
- Metal
- Mayonnaise
- Mud
- Mist
- Motivation
- Motherhood
- Measles
N
- Nature
- Nitrogen
- Nutrition
- Noise
- News
- Nonsense
- Nurture
O
- Obedience
- Obesity
- Oxygen
- Oil
Uncountable Nouns List: P – Z
P
- Paper
- Passion
- Poetry
- Parking
- Pressure
- Perfume
- Physics
- Psychology
- Peel
- Pepper
- Patience
- Permission
- Peace
- Philosophy
- Plastic
- Progress
- Production
- Pollution
- Pleasure
- Pork
- Petrol
- Pronunciation
- Pride
- Policy
- Purity
- Poverty
- Punctuation
- Power
- Produce
- Protection
- Publicity
- Pasta
- Pay
- Pain
- Painting
Q
- Quartz
- Quality
- Quantity
R
- Reliability
- Rum
- Recreation
- Reality
- Rubbish
- Revenge
- Racism
- Rice
- Relief
- Respect
- Rain
- Relaxation
- Research
- Religion
S
- Salt
- Safety
- Salad
- Scaffolding
- Soil
- Satisfaction
- Sand
- Satire
- Security
- Sorrow
- Seafood
- Speed
- Scenery
- Sewing
- Strength
- Space
- Software
- Seaside
- Stream
- Stupidity
- Shopping
- Stress
- Shame
- Spite
- Steam
- Silence
- Sunshine
- Sleep
- Status
- Success
- Soup
- Snow
- Smoking
- Silver
- Symmetry
- Spaghetti
- Spelling
- Soap
- Sport
- Stuff
- Sugar
- Smoke
T
- Tea
- Tolerance
- Thirst
- Technology
- Trousers
- Tennis
- Trade
- Timber
- Turbulence
- Toothpaste
- Time
- Traffic
- Travel
- Toast
- Thunder
- Transportation
- Trust
- Trouble
- Temperature
U
- Understanding
- Usage
- Underwear
- Unemployment
- Unity
V
- Violence
- Veal
- Validity
- Vitality
- Vinegar
- Vision
- Vegetation
- Vegetarianism
- Vengeance
W
- Warmth
- Weight
- Whiskey
- Weather
- Wildlife
- 水
- Welfare
- Wine
- Wisdom
- Wood
- Wealth
- Wheat
- Wool
- Width
- Work
Y
- Yoga
- Youth
- Yeast
Z
- Zoology
- Zinc
List of Uncountable Nouns | Pictures
Non-count Nouns List A – D
List of Non-count Nouns E – H
Non-count Nouns List I – O
Examples of Non-count Nouns P – S
Non-count Nouns List S – Z
NOUNS: Useful Grammar Rules, List & Examples
- Types of Nouns in English
- Collective Nouns List
- Possessive Nouns
- Countable & Uncountable Nouns
- List of Concrete Nouns
- Abstract Nouns List
- Regular Plural Nouns
- Irregular Plural Nouns
- Gender of Nouns
Last Updated on February 20, 2023
There are some websites saying data are plura. It’s from greek and a singular form is datum. So this is confusing me.
Hey, just a quick point, you have misspelled jewelry, thanks!
Hi Joseph!
Thank you for your observation, but “Jewellery” is correct.
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