cluttered
/ˈklʌtɚd/adjective, verb
cluttered is an adjective meaning “Scattered with a disorderly mixture of objects that occupies space; littered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-L-U-T-T-E-R-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cluttered mean?
adjective
- 1
Scattered with a disorderly mixture of objects that occupies space; littered.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of clutter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cluttered?
- US /ˈklʌtɚd/
Cluttered has 2 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-cluttered.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cluttered
- more cluttered comparative
- most cluttered superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cluttered?
Cluttered appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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).
Cluttered in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense scattered with a disorderly mixture of objects:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | encombré |
| German | unaufgeräumt, überladen |
| Portuguese | desordenado, bagunçado |
| Spanish | abarrotado, desordenado, atiborrado, desbarajustado, que tiene mucha(s) cosa |
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.