# clothes

> English word · Noun · IPA /kləʊ(ð)z/ · frequency rank #1,932

## Definitions
1. Items of clothing; apparel.
2. plural of cloth.
3. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
4. Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

## Etymology
From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

## Easily confused with
- **cloths** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothes-vs-cloths)
- **cloves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothes-vs-cloves)
- **clutches** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothes-vs-clutches)
- **cloth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cloth-vs-clothes)
- **closes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closes-vs-clothes)
- **clothe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothe-vs-clothes)
- **clothed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothed-vs-clothes)

## Common misspellings (11)
`cclothes`, `cllothes`, `clohtes`, `clotehs`, `clothess`, `clothhes`, `clothse`, `clotthes`, `cltohes`, `colthes`, `lcothes`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clothes