clavier

Other forms of clavier

plural

claviers·

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 clavier

What does clavier mean?

clavier means "a bank of keys on a musical instrument". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clavier?

clavier has 2 syllables: cla-vier. The stress falls on "cla".

What is another word for clavier?

Close synonyms include piano keyboard, fingerboard, Klavier. 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 clavier a common word?

clavier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.