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How to spell hour

Hour is spelled H-O-U-R.

What it means: A unit of time equal to 60 minutes.

In a sentence: There is one hour until dinner time. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for a silent h, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Not to be confused with: our, a different word.

Same family: hours, hourly, half-hour, after-hours. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Hour” comes from Old French *hore* and Latin *hora*, meaning a fixed time or season. Long ago, the length of an “hour” could change with the seasons, but it later became the standard 60 minutes we use today.

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