cluck

Other forms of cluck

plural

clucks·

past tense

clucked·

present participle

clucking·

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 cluck

What does cluck mean?

cluck means "the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cluck?

cluck has 1 syllable: cluck. In IPA it is /ˈklʌk/.

What is another word for cluck?

Close synonyms include clucking, click, clack. 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 cluck a common word?

cluck is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.