If nothing else, that is a truly sadistic trivia question. I wonder if there are any other words in the English language whose plural form is spelled the same, but pronounced differently.
There are a bunch of other heteronyms, but I can't think of others that differ specifically in the plural
The Artificial General Intelligence (Claude) gives a few more examples (but only after having been prompted with your examples):
- Rendezvous, hors d'eouvre, patois, chamois, bourgeois, glacis, fracas (dialect dependent), debris (rare), pince nez (dialect dependent).
So chassis, the thing full of parts, case, same thing but without the parts?
> It is a container
Did you mean "It is containers"? Or is it actually possible to have a singular container of parts?
Surprisingly enough, despite nobody using it like this, it works well, except for cars, where the singular form would be frame(car case just does not work), which does not share the same root and as such is a bit disappointing.
And what is also disapointing, despite the word already being plural(a french spelling of latin pluralization rules for case, use the latin soft c for case and add an i to pluralize, under french rules "is", the s is silent), When there are several chassis, we use the english pluralization rules and add an s. And because there is already an s we just add an s sound.