clustered

Other forms of clustered

comparative

clusteredder·

superlative

clustereddest·

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 clustered

What does clustered mean?

clustered means "growing close together but not in dense mats". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clustered?

clustered has 2 syllables: clus-tered. The stress falls on "clus". In IPA it is /ˈklʌstɚd/.

What is another word for clustered?

Close synonyms include agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative. 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 clustered a common word?

clustered 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.