clinker

Other forms of clinker

plural

clinkers·

past tense

clinkerred·

present participle

clinkerring·

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 clinker

What does clinker mean?

clinker means "a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clinker?

clinker has 2 syllables and divides as clin-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for clinker?

Close synonyms include cinder, clinker brick. 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 clinker a common word?

clinker 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.