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clackety

adjective, noun

clackety is spelled C-L-A-C-K-E-T-Y: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, clackety means “That is characterized by clacketing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in clackety?

Letters8: C-L-A-C-K-E-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is clackety?

Clackety appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of clackety

  • more clackety comparative
  • most clackety superlative
  • clackity

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does clackety mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    That is characterized by clacketing.

noun

  1. 1

    A clacking sound suggesting mechanical motion, as of a railway train.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does clackety come from?

Imitative, from clack.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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