klomp
/klɑmp/noun, verb
klomp is a noun meaning “A Dutch wooden clog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-L-O-M-P and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of klomp is klomps or klompen.
What does klomp mean?
noun
- 1
A Dutch wooden clog.
verb
- 1
Alternative form of clomp (“to walk heavily or clumsily”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce klomp?
- UK /klɒmp/
- US /klɑmp/
Klomp 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-clomp.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of klomp
- klomps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- klompen plural
- klomping participle, present
- klomped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is klomp?
Klomp appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Where does klomp come from?
Borrowed from Dutch klomp. Doublet of clump.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).