Mr. Otis was awakened by a curious noise in the corridor, outside his room. It sounded like the clank of metal, and seemed to be coming nearer every moment.
Source: tatoeba (5420507)
Clank
//klæŋk//
Synonyms for "clank" (76 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (38)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Translations
28 translations across 11 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- قَعْقَعَ verb (to make a clanking sound)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- zanqıltı noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
Esperanto
1 entries- klaki verb (to make a clanking sound)
Finnish
4 entries- kalahdus noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- kalina noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- kalahdella verb (to make a clanking sound)
- kalahtaa verb (to make a clanking sound)
French
2 entries- cliquetis noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- cliqueter verb (to make a clanking sound)
German
3 entries- aneinanderschlagen verb (to cause to sound with a clank)
- klirren verb (to make a clanking sound)
- kläppern verb (to make a clanking sound)
Japanese
1 entries- ガチャガチャする verb (to make a clanking sound)
Macedonian
3 entries- ждрингот noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- ѕвек noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- ѕвекот noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
Portuguese
1 entries- retinir verb (to make a clanking sound)
Russian
4 entries- бряца́ние noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- лязг noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
- бряца́ть verb (to make a clanking sound)
- греме́ть verb (to make a clanking sound)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- zvek noun (loud, hard metallic sound)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The door closed with a clank.
Source: tatoeba (11623501)
The chains clanked.
Source: wiktionary
Slung from his shoulders clanks a two-handed sword, the pommel a huge star-ruby carven in the image of a heart, for the heart is his sign and symbol.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.