watt-hour

1. 1.

   a unit of energy equal to the power of one watt operating for one hour

   Broaderwork unit

   Part ofkilowatt hour

Questions about watt-hour

What does watt-hour mean?

watt-hour means "a unit of energy equal to the power of one watt operating for one hour".

How many syllables are in watt-hour?

watt-hour has 2 syllables and divides as wat-t-hour under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is watt-hour a common word?

watt-hour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.