clothing
cloth·ing/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/noun, verb
clothing is spelled C-L-O-T-H-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables (cloth·ing). It appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, clothing means “Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of clothing is clothings.
How many letters and syllables are in clothing?
| Letters | 8: C-L-O-T-H-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: cloth·ing |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is clothing?
Clothing appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 clothing?
- UK /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/
- US /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/
- /ˈkloðɪŋ/
Clothing has 2 syllables, split cloth·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-clothing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with clothing?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as clothing from its last stressed vowel (/oʊðɪŋ/):
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 clothing
- clothings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does clothing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
Marco runs a clothing brand.
- 2
An act or instance of putting clothes on.
The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.
- 3
obsoleteThe art or process of making cloth.
- 4
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of clothe
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Clothing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense clothes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vêtements, habits |
| German | Gewand, Kleidung |
| Portuguese | roupa, veste, vestidura, vestimenta, indumento, traje |
| Spanish | ropa, ropaje, indumentaria, indumento, vestido, vestidura |
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 clothing come from?
From Middle English clothing, clathing, from Old English *clāþung, from Proto-West Germanic *klaiþungu (“clothing”), equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots clathing, claithing (“clothing”), Saterland Frisian Klodenge (“clothing”), West Frisian klaaiïng (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish kläding, klädning (“clothing, dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).