clamber

Other forms of clamber

plural

clambers·

past tense

clamberred·

present participle

clamberring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clamber

What does clamber mean?

clamber means "an awkward climb". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clamber?

clamber has 2 syllables: clam-ber. The stress falls on "clam". In IPA it is /ˈklæmbɚ/.

What is another word for clamber?

Close synonyms include scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clamber a common word?

clamber is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.