clutter

Plural: clutters

Noun

a confused multitude of things
unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen
A confused disordered jumble of things.
Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”).
Clatter; confused noise.
A Sperner family.

Verb

Verb Forms: cluttered, cluttering, clutters

To fill or strew with an untidy collection of things.
fill a space in a disorderly way
To fill something with clutter.
To clot or coagulate, like blood.
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).

Examples

He tended to CLUTTER the Words With Friends board with short, disconnected words.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).

Synonyms

clutter up, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter

Antonyms

unclutter

Scrabble Score: 9

clutter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
clutter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
clutter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

clutter: valid Words With Friends Word