club
/klʌb/noun, verb
club is spelled C-L-U-B: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 158 times per million words in written English, the 638th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, club means “A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of club is clubs.
How many letters and syllables are in club?
| Letters | 4: C-L-U-B |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 158 times per million words; the 638th 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 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 club?
Club appears 158 times per million words in written English, the 638th 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 club?
- US /klʌb/
- Australia /klɐb/
- /kləb/
Club 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: En-us-club.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with club?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as club from its last stressed vowel (/ʌb/):
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 club
- clubs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- clubbing participle, present
- clubbed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does club mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- 2
An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- 3
An item used during routines, the apparatus consisting of a set of two clubs.
- 4
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- 5
archaicThe fees associated with belonging to such a club.
He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
- 6
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
17 Mat 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary first we went and dined at a French house , but paid 10s for our part of the club
- 7
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.
- 8
A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
verb
- 1
To hit with a club.
He clubbed the poor dog.
- 2
To score a victory over by a large margin.
- 3
To join together to form a group.
- 4
To combine into a club-shaped mass.
a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- 5
To go to nightclubs.
We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- 6
To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- 7
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
to club the expense
- 8
To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Club in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | club , bâton, gourdin , boîte, boîte de nuit , bâtonner |
| German | Klub, Verein , Keule , Nachtklub, Nachtlokal , Schläger |
| Portuguese | clube , clava, bastão, porrete, taco |
| Spanish | club , bastón, garrote, porra , discoteca , palo |
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 club come from?
Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”). Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve (“bulb”), German Kolben (“butt, bulb, club”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).