cleg
/klɛɡ/noun
cleg is spelled C-L-E-G: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cleg means “a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cleg is clegs.
How many letters and syllables are in cleg?
| Letters | 4: C-L-E-G |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 cleg?
Cleg appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 cleg?
- /klɛɡ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cleg.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cleg
- clegs plural
- clegg
- gleg
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cleg mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Scotlanda blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
- 2
A light breeze.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cleg come from?
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).