Words That Start With

CL

English words beginning with “CL” — sorted by frequency

✦193 words found

🟩36 Wordle words

🟩 5-Letter Words Starting With CL

36 Wordle words

These are valid 5-letter words — exactly the format Wordle uses every day.

CLOSE CLEAR CLASP CLUMP CLEFT CLASS CLERK CLEAN CLOUT CLASH CLOAK CLACK CLAIM CLANG CLAMP CLINK CLICK CLEPE CLOTH CLANK CLUNK CLINE CLOCK CLING CLEVE CLOUD CLIMB CLOVE CLOWN CLUCK CLOMP CLART CLONK CLIFT CLONE CLEAT

🎯 4-Letter Words Starting With CL

16 words

Useful for Scrabble, crossword fill-ins, and short word puzzles.

CLUB CLAD CLAP CLIT CLIP CLAM CLAN CLOD CLAW CLEW CLOT CLUE CLAY CLOG CLOP CLOU

All Words Starting With CL

193 words — most common first

Sorted by how frequently each word appears in written English.

Word	Letters	Syllables	Type	Definition
clamor	6	2	noun	A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
close	5	1	noun	(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
clear	5	1	verb	Transparent in colour.
clandestine	11	3		Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
clemency	8	3	noun	The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
clutch	6	1	noun	(transitive) To grip or grasp tightly.
clever	6	2	noun	Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
cloying	7	2		Excessively sweet.
clamber	7	2	verb	(ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
clamorous	9	3		Creating a loud noise. (of people, animals or things)
climax	6	2	noun	(narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
clench	6	1	verb	To grip or hold fast.
cluster	7	2	noun	A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
clasp	5	1	noun	(countable) A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder.
clump	5	1	noun	A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
clement	7	2	noun	Mild (said of weather and similar circumstances).
clarify	7	3	verb	(by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
clarity	7	3	noun	The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
clairvoyant	11	3	noun	Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
club	4	1	noun	(countable) A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
clique	6	1	noun	A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
clad	4	1	verb	(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
cleft	5	1	noun	An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
cleave	6	1	verb	(transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.
class	5	1	noun	(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
clap	4	1	noun	The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
clerk	5	1	noun	One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
cloister	8	2	noun	A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
clinch	6	1	noun	To make certain; to finalize.
clean	5	1	verb	Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
clatter	7	2	noun	(intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
clamant	7	2		Urgent.
clit	4	1	noun	(slang, vulgar, transitive, intransitive, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris.
closure	7	2	noun	An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
clout	5	1	noun	(informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
clash	5	1	noun	Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
cloak	5	1	noun	A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
clack	5	1	noun	(intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
classy	6	2	noun	Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
clip	4	1	noun	To grip tightly.
clam	4	1	noun	A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
clinical	8	3	noun	(medicine) Dealing with the practical management of patients, in practice at the point of care; as contrasted with other health care venues (see clinical medicine for more explanation).
clemently	9	3		In a clement manner.
client	6	2	noun	A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
clan	4	1	noun	(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
classic	7	2	noun	Exhibiting timeless quality and excellence.
clarification	13	5	noun	The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation.
clinquant	9	2	noun	Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
cloistered	10	2		Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
clamoring	9	3	noun	A sound that clamors.
claim	5	1	noun	To demand ownership of.
clinic	6	2	noun	A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
claret	6	2	noun	(chiefly UK) A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere.
clod	4	1	noun	A lump of something, especially earth or clay.
clang	5	1	noun	A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
clueless	8	2		(figuratively) Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
clandestinely	13	4		In a secret or covert manner.
clamp	5	1	noun	A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
clergy	6	2	noun	Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
clink	5	1	noun	(ambitransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
cloudy	6	2		Covered with or characterised by clouds.
clairvoyance	12	3	noun	(parapsychology) The power to see or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.
clutches	8	2	noun	(idiomatic, usually in the plural) Grasp; possession; control.
clamouring	10	3	noun	A sound that clamours.
click	5	1	verb	(graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
claw	4	1	noun	A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
classical	9	3	noun	(music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
clew	4	1	noun	Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
clumsy	6	2	noun	Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
clarified	9	3		Made clear.
clepe	5	1	verb	(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To report; relate; tell.
cloth	5	1	noun	(countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
clapper	7	2	noun	An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
clarion	7	3	noun	Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear.
clank	5	1	noun	A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
cleric	6	2	noun	A member of a clergy.
clobber	7	2	verb	(transitive, slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.
clerical	8	3	noun	Of or relating to clerks or their work.
clunk	5	1	noun	A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.
closeness	9	2	noun	The state of being close (all senses)
cloaked	7	1		Covered, hidden, disguised.
clausula	8	3	noun	(music) The conclusion of a passage; cadence.
cleavage	8	2	noun	The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
clearly	7	2		(modal) Without a doubt; obviously.
cline	5	1	noun	Any graduated continuum.
clangour	8	2	noun	(British, Canada) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
clock	5	1	noun	A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
classification	14	5	noun	The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
climate	7	2	noun	The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
clause	6	1	noun	(grammar) A group of words that contains a subject and a verb; it may be part of a sentence or may constitute the whole sentence, depending on the syntax in each instance.
clitoris	8	3	noun	(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals.
clot	4	1	noun	A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
closing	7	2	noun	The act by which something is closed.
closet	6	2	noun	A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
cling	5	1	verb	To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
clientele	9	3	noun	The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.
clambake	8	2	noun	(New England) An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.
cloche	6	2	noun	A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
cloudburst	10	2	noun	A sudden heavy rainstorm.
clothier	8	2	noun	A person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
claustrophobic	14	4	noun	(psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.
clotted	7	2		Coagulated
clamper	7	2	noun	One who, or that which, clamps.
clenched	8	1		Closed tightly.
clamorously	11	4		In a clamorous manner.
cleve	5	1	noun	(now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.
clunge	6	1	noun	(UK, vulgar, slang, chiefly Internet) Vulva or vagina.
cloud	5	1	noun	A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
clavicle	8	3	noun	(anatomy) The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
clue	4	1	noun	Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
clutter	7	2	noun	(uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
clipped	7	1		Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
cleanse	7	1	verb	(transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
claptrap	8	2	noun	Empty verbiage or nonsense.
clearness	9	2	noun	Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
clanging	8	2	noun	A noise that clangs.
clattering	10	3	noun	A noise that clatters.
classis	7	2	noun	(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below divisio and above ordo.
clawing	7	2	noun	A scratch with the claws.
cloisonne	9	2	noun	(metalwork, uncountable) A decorative technique for metalwork, especially brass, whereby colored enamel is baked in partitions (cloisons) between raised ridges of the metal.