cluttering
noun, verb
cluttering is a noun meaning “The act of making, or condition of being, cluttered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-L-U-T-T-E-R-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cluttering is clutterings.
What does cluttering mean?
noun
- 1
The act of making, or condition of being, cluttered.
- 2
A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering.
- 3
An instance of cluttered speech.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of clutter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cluttering?
Cluttering 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).
Forms of cluttering
- clutterings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cluttering?
Cluttering appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th 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).
Cluttering in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Poltern, Battarismus, Tachyphemie |
| Portuguese | linguagem precipitada, taquifemia |
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.