o'clock

1. 1.

   according to the clock

   “it's three o'clock in Tokyo now”

Questions about o'clock

What does o'clock mean?

o'clock means "according to the clock".

How many syllables are in o'clock?

o'clock has 2 syllables: o'-clock. The stress falls on "clock". In IPA it is /əˈklɑk/.

Is o'clock a common word?

o'clock is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with o'clock?

1 word rhymes with o'clock. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.