clothe

Other forms of clothe

past tense or participle

clad

present participle

clothing·

third person

clothes·

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 clothe

What does clothe mean?

clothe means "provide with clothes or put clothes on". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clothe?

clothe has 1 syllable: clothe. In IPA it is /ˈkloʊð/.

What is another word for clothe?

Close synonyms include dress, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog. 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 clothe a common word?

clothe 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.