half-hourly

1. 1.

   occurring ever half hour

   Similarperiodic

1. 1.

   every thirty minutes, every half hour

Questions about half-hourly

What does half-hourly mean?

half-hourly means "occurring ever half hour". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in half-hourly?

half-hourly has 3 syllables: half--hour-ly. The stress falls on "half-".

Is half-hourly a common word?

half-hourly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.