clew

Other forms of clew

plural

clews·

past tense

clewed·

present participle

clewing·

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 clew

What does clew mean?

clew means "a ball of yarn or cord or thread". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clew?

clew has 1 syllable: clew.

What is another word for clew?

Close synonyms include clue, cue, clue. 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 clew a common word?

clew 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.