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clad

/klæd/adjective, verb

clad is spelled C-L-A-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, clad means “Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in clad?

Letters4: C-L-A-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is clad?

Clad appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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).

How do you pronounce clad?

  • US /klæd/

Clad has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-clad.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with clad?

10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as clad from its last stressed vowel (/æd/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of clad

  • clads present, singular, he/she/it
  • cladding participle, present
  • cladded participle, past

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

What does clad mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

  2. 2

    Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.

  3. 3

    Adorned, ornamented.

verb

  1. 1

    archaicobsoleteTo clothe, to dress.

  2. 2

    To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).

  3. 3

    To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

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

Clad in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhabillé, vêtu (of a person: wearing clothing or some other…), revêtu (of an object: covered, etc., by a cladding, or…), vêtir, habiller (to clothe, to dress – see also clothe, dress), couvrir (to cover the walls of a building with some…)
Germankleiden (to clothe, to dress – see also clothe, dress)
Portuguesecobrir (to clothe, to dress – see also clothe, dress)
Spanishbañar, cubrir, lavar (to clothe, to dress – see also clothe, dress)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does clad come from?

From Middle English clad(d), cladde, clade, past tense and past participle forms of clathen, clothen (“to put clothing on, clothe, dress”), from *clāþian (“to clothe”) (past participle ġeclāded, ġeclaþed, ġeclaþod), from clāþ, clǣþ (“cloth; (plural) clothes”); see further at etymology 1.

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

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