clustering
/ˈklʌstɚɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
clustering is spelled C-L-U-S-T-E-R-I-N-G: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, clustering means “A grouping of a number of similar things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of clustering is clusterings.
How many letters and syllables are in clustering?
| Letters | 10: C-L-U-S-T-E-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.1 times per million words; the 27,820th 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 clustering?
Clustering appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,820th 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 clustering?
- US /ˈklʌstɚɪŋ/
Clustering has 3 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-clustering.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-clustering.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with clustering?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as clustering from its last stressed vowel (/ʌstəɹɪŋ/):
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 clustering
- clusterings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does clustering mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A grouping of a number of similar things.
- 2
The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
- 3
The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
- 4
A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.
adjective
- 1
Forming a cluster.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of cluster
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Clustering in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | agrupamiento , grupo, agrupación |
| French | regroupement |
| Portuguese | agrupamento |
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.