hour

Other forms of hour

plural

hours·

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 hour

What does hour mean?

hour means "a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hour?

hour has 2 syllables: ho-ur. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˈaʊɚ/.

What is another word for hour?

Close synonyms include hr, 60 minutes, time of day, minute. 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 hour a common word?

hour is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.