hour: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 7 letter points · starts with H · ends with R
Meaning of hour
noun
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
Example: I spent an hour at lunch.
A season, moment, or time.
Example: Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
- poetic
The time.
Example: The hour grows late and I must go home.
- in-plural
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
Listed forms: hours, hower, houre, howre.
Source: Wiktionary — hour.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for hour.
noun
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
- hr
- 60 minutes
noun
clock time
- time of day
noun
distance measured by the time taken to cover it
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is hour in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of hour
H(4) + O(1) + U(1) + R(1) = 7 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of hour
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from hour
7 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in hour. Showing up to 24, longest first.