clear away

verb

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"clear-away" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“clear away” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.

Key facts for clear away
PropertyValue
Headwordclear away
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “clear away” sits in English frequency

clear away falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

clear away is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for clear away in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is clear away, spelled C-L-E-A-R- -A-W-A-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
  2. 2
    To leave, disappear.
  3. 3
    To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.
  4. 4
    To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "clear away"?
"clear away" is spelled C-L-E-A-R- -A-W-A-Y.
What does "clear away" mean?
As a verb, "clear away" means: To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
What language does "clear away" come from?
"clear away" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “clear away”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is C-L-E-A-R- -A-W-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list