diff --git a/checks.js b/checks.js
index bc41e1b..53b6384 100644
--- a/checks.js
+++ b/checks.js
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
   // name that itself contains a standalone status word (e.g. "error-pages")
   // is still ambiguous — labels are all GitHub's accessible rows give us.
   const FAILING_RE =
-    /\b(fail(?:ed|ing|ure|s)?|error(?:ed|s)?|timed out|cancel(?:l?ed)?|denied|action required)\b/i;
+    /\b(fail(?:ed|ing|ures?|s)?|error(?:ed|s)?|timed out|cancel(?:l?ed)?|denied|action required)\b/i;
   const RUNNING_RE = /\b(in[ _]progress|pending|queued|running|waiting|expected)\b/i;
   const PASSING_RE = /\b(success(?:ful)?|passed|passing)\b/i;
 
diff --git a/test/checks.test.mjs b/test/checks.test.mjs
index 8a16d51..8c0996c 100644
--- a/test/checks.test.mjs
+++ b/test/checks.test.mjs
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ describe("deriveChecksState", () => {
   it("still matches the real inflected status phrases", () => {
     expect(deriveChecksState(["ci failed after 2m"]).key).toBe("failing");
     expect(deriveChecksState(["ci failure"]).key).toBe("failing");
+    expect(deriveChecksState(["ci 2 failures"]).key).toBe("failing");
     expect(deriveChecksState(["deploy cancelled after 10s"]).key).toBe("failing");
     expect(deriveChecksState(["deploy canceled after 10s"]).key).toBe("failing");
     expect(deriveChecksState(["lint timed out"]).key).toBe("failing");