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Definition: Clutter |
ClutterNoun1. A confused multitude of things. 2. Many things in a disorderly state. Verb1. Fill a space in a disorderly way. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clutter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. Atmospheric noise, extraneous signals, etc., which tend to obscure the reception of a desired signal in a radio receiver, radarscope, etc. As compared with interference, clutter refers more particularly to unwanted reflections on a radar plan position indicator, such as ground return, but the terms are often used interchangeably.2. = window. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The confused unwanted echoes on a radar display. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Unwanted indications on display, especially radar display, due to atmospheric interference, lightning, natural static, ground/sea returns. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | CLUTTER. A stir, noise, or racket: what a confounded clutter here is!. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: ClutterSynonyms: jumble (n), mare's nest (n), muddle (n), smother (n), welter (n), clutter up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: cluttering (post & telecom). |
| Antonym: unclutter (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Clutter |
| English words defined with "clutter": blend ♦ Cluttering, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate ♦ flux, fuse ♦ immix ♦ meld, merge, mix. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clutter": background return ♦ GFR, Grim File Reaper, Ground Clutter, ground return ♦ Right-to-farm laws ♦ sea clutter. (references) |
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Lyrics | I spit and stutter stuff and clutter (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6) Got no time for clutter, you're late if there's hesitance (Friends And Family; performing artist: Trik Turner) | |
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Albert Einstein | Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. |
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| "Clutter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.61% of the time. "Clutter" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.61% | 119 | 29,501 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.51% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.88% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "clutter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Clutter | Last name | 1,000 | 13,832 |
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Expressions using "clutter": clutter up ♦ radar clutter ♦ sea clutter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clutter": clutter-clutter, clutter-free. | |
Ending with "clutter": a-clutter, clutter-clutter, litter-clutter. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "clutter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, pother, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), bëj rrëmujë (disorder, hash, litter, mess, pother), çrregullim (bewilderment, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, excess, foul up, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, muddle, muss, turmoil, upset). (various references) | |
Arabic | فوضى (anarchy, chaos, clatter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, litter, mess, misrule, mix up, muddle, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil, welter), ضوضاء (brawl, clamor, clamour, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, pandemonium, plonk, pother, racket, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, rumpus, shouting, stink, tub-thumping, tumult), ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, pother, racket, roar, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, sensation, shindy, sound, stir, storm, titbit, tumult), ركام يعوزه نظام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разхвърлям (disject, disseminate, litter, mess, muss, overspread), разбърквам (addle, agitate, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), хаос (anarchy, bedlam, chaos, interregnum, maze, mix, pandemonium, snafu, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, whirl), глъчка (din, outcry, racket, rhubarb, tumult), отрупвам (heap, heap smth. up, heap up, overwhelm, pile, ply, smother, snow under), бъркотия (bungle, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), безредие (anarchy, disarray, disorder, embroilment, imbroglio, misrule, negligence, pandemonium, pell mell, untidiness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 凌乱 (Cluttered, Cluttering). (various references) | |
Czech | zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter), shon (bustle, circus, hustle, race, rush, scramble), krámy (junk, things). (various references) | |
Danish | sørefleks (sea return), glitter. (various references) | |
Dutch | clutter, zeeëcho (sea return), vaste echo's, sluier (veil). (various references) | |
Farsi | صداهای ناهنجاردراوردن , درهم وبرهمی (Disarray, Mash, Misrule, Muss, Welter), درهم ریختن (Pie), درهم ریختگی (Huddle). (various references) | |
Finnish | välke (brilliance, gleam, glitter), sokeltaa (talk thick). (various references) | |
French | signal parasite, retour de mer, mettre en désordre, image de fond, fouillis d'échos, fatras, embarrasser, désordre, bruit (clang, clank, clatter), écho parasite. (various references) | |
German | Wirrwar, Stördaten. (various references) | |
Greek | αταξία (ataxia, confusion, disaray, disarray, disorder, irregularity, mess, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, prank, shenanighan, wildness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערבובי" (confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hodgpodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mess, mingle-mangle, mishmash, muddle, muss, pastiche, tumble, welter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zavaró visszaverõdés (radar clutter), zûrzavar (chaos, confusion, disorder, embroilment, helter-skelter, huddle, hurly burly, jumble, maze, melee, mess, muddle, muss, pandemonium, snafu, tumult, turbulence), telezsúfol (to clutter up), interferencia (interference, interfering, mush), hadar (gabble, jabber, to gabble, to jabber, to splutter, to sputter), háttérzavar, felfordulás (cataclysm, combustion, commotion, confusion, convulsions, earthquake, hoo-ha, hoopla, huddle, hurly burly, hurly-burly, hurry-skurry, mess, mix, mix-up, muddle, muss, subversion, tangled skein, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval, upset, upsetting, whoop-de-doo). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekacauan (anarchy, chaos, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganazation, disruption). (various references) | |
Italian | confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, carry on, chaos, commotion, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, fuss, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, noise, pother, puzzledom, shambles, stir), clutter, rumore confuso, mettere in disordine (confusion, disorder, litter, mess, tousle), massa confusa, ingombrare (choke, cumber, encumber, stuff, throng), fare confusione (blur), eco del mare (sea return), echi spurii, echi spuri, echi di disturbo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 乱雑 (affray, confusion, disorder, muddle, promiscuity). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ら"ざつ (affray, confusion, disorder, muddle, promiscuity). (various references) | |
Korean | 불"반사파. (various references) | |
Manx | orch (debris, leaving of fodder, refuse, trash, trash rubbish, wastage). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utterclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), tumulto (affray, agitation, bluster, broil, bruit, clamor, clamour, colorwash, colourwash, combustion, commotion, confusion, disorder, distemper, donnybrook, faction, gale, hubbub, outcry, pandemonium, rampage, riot, rout, ruction, rumpus, scuffle, shindy, stir, tempest, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar), reflexos, reflexo (glance, glimmer, glimmering, glisten, ray, reflection, reflective, reflex, reflexion, reflexive, repercussion), pôr em desordem (litter, rummage, shuffle, tangle, tousle, unsettle), fazer barulho (burr, chatter, clatter, jangle, noise, racket, rampage, riot, roister, splutter, vandalize, wallop), ecos indesejados, eco provocado pela vaga (sea return), eco parasita (parasitic echo, spurious echo), desordem (affray, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, cracking, din, donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), atravancar (block, chock, encumber, lumber, obstruct), algazarra (clamor, clamour, clatter, hullabaloo, outcry, pother, racket, rattle, roughhouse, row, shindy, tumult, uproar, whoop). (various references) | |
Romanian | crea dezordine în (disorder), confuzie (bewilderment, blankness, confusion, disorder, distraction, embroilment, fuss, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mix up, muddle, obfuscation, shuffle, storm, tumble), zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, din, dispute, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, racket, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), forfoti (bustle, flutter, fuss, simmer), forfotã (bustle, fuss), face neorânduialã în, face dezordine (disarray, rummage), dezordine (confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working), învãlmãşi (confuse, rout). (various references) | |
Russian | приводить в беспорядок (derange, disarrange, disarray, foul up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stvarati paniku, panika (panic), jurnjava (chasing, hurry, rush, scurry), galamiti (clamor, clamour, din, make a noise), galama (bobbery, hullabaloo, noise, noisiness, racket, roisterer, roistering). (various references) | |
Spanish | confusión (abashment, baffle, commotion, confusion, disarray, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, fluster, fog, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, knockabout, litter, maze, mess, mix up, mix-up, muddle, mystification, perplexity, pother, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, turmoil, welter), reflejos (highlights), reflejo (reflection, reflex, reflexion, rinse), llenar desordenadamente, lío (bundle, caper, do, fuss, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), ecos indeseados, eco parásito (angel, parasitic echo, sea return, spurious echo), desordenar (disarray, disorder, disturb, mess), desorden (chaos, confusion, defile, disarray, disorder, lawlessness, litter, muddle, muss, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, untidiness), atestar (attest, cram, overcrowd, pack, testify, throng). (various references) | |
Swedish | oväsen (ado, brawl, Caterwaul, clatter, commotion, din, fray, hubbub, hubub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, outcry, racket, shindig, shindy), bråte (log jam, lumber). (various references) | |
Thai | กองระเกะระกะ, ทำให้ยุ่งเหยิง (hash, muddle, obfuscate, ravel, tangle), ความยุ่งเหยิง (hash, ravelment, tangle). (various references) | |
Turkish | yığmak (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter up, congest, conglomerate, drift, dump, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pack, pile, pile on, pile up, put up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), tıka basa doldurmak (choke up, clutter up, cram, encumber, glut, gorge, pack, Stoke, tuck away), karman çormanlık, karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), darmadağın etmek (clutter up, rout, send things flying, snafu), dağınıklık (cock up, diffusiveness, disarrangement, disarray, disorganization, dispersion, litter, untidiness, waywardness), altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хаос (chaos, misrule, upturn), шуміти (bluster, chide, clamor, clamour, crack, din, horse about, horse around, noise, racket, roar, whir, whirr), шум (ado, alarm, bobbery, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, hoity toity, hubbub, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, oration, pother, racket, racquet, row, ruction, sound, sputter, tumult, uproar), гамір (ballyhoo, noise, oration, rout, rumpus), галасувати (boom, clamor, clamour, noise, rollick, sound off, whoop), невиразно говорити, місцеві перешкоди, метушня (ado, alarm, bustle, buzz, flurry, fuss, helter-skelter, hurly burly, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, romps, rough and tumble, splutter, stir, stirabout, to-do, turmoil, whirl), метушитися (bustle, fidget, fluster, fuss, fuss about, scurry, trot about), захаращувати (choke, encumber, lumber, obstruct, overcharge), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter), приводити в безладдя. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng "n o huyên náo sự lộn xộn, sự hỗn loạn sự mất bình tĩnh. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clutter": cluttered, cluttering, clutters, cluttery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "clutter": unclutter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "clutter": uncluttered, uncluttering, unclutters. (additional references) | |
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"Clutter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celutel, chuter, chutter, Clottery, cludder, cluter, Cluther, cluttery, Cluytia, cuttery, glutter, Lutteur, Schlotter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clutter" (pronounced klu"ter) |
| 4 | -l u" t er | aflutter, flutter. |
| 3 | -u" t er | butter, cutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, putter, shutter, sputter, stutter, utter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cutler, cutlet, cutter, cuttle, reluct, turtle. | |
-2 letters: cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, eruct, lucre, recut, truce, ulcer, utter. | |
-3 letters: celt, clue, cult, cure, curl, curt, cute, ecru, luce, lure, lute, rule, tret, true, tule. | |
-4 letters: cel, cue, cur, cut, ecu, let, leu, rec, ret, rue, rut, tel, tet, tut. | |
-5 letters: el, er, et, re, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: clutters, cluttery, cultrate. | |
+2 letters: cluttered, reluctant, reluctate, truculent, unclutter. | |
+3 letters: articulate, cluttering, courtliest, reluctated, reluctates, reticulate, tentacular, testicular, turtleback, turtleneck, unclutters. | |
+4 letters: acculturate, anticruelty, articulated, articulates, counterplot, curtailment, electrocute, luteotropic, matriculate, multicenter, particulate, recultivate, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, reticulated, reticulates, trabeculate, translucent, truculently, tuberculate, turtlebacks, turtlenecks, ultrasecret, uncluttered, unreluctant, viticulture. | |
+5 letters: acculturated, acculturates, articulately, articulative, citriculture, congratulate, counterblast, counterplots, counterstyle, curtailments, destructible, electrocuted, electrocutes, electrotonus, fluidextract, gesticulator, horticulture, inarticulate, intercluster, interculture, interfaculty, interlocutor, luteotrophic, matriculated, matriculates, multipicture, multitracked, neutralistic, particulates, rearticulate, recapitulate, recultivated, recultivates, reluctations, reticulately, reticulating, reticulation, reticulocyte, telecommuter, tuberculated, turtlenecked, uncluttering, viticultures. | |
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