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hour

How many syllables in hour?

  1 syllable

Divide hour into syllables:   hour
Syllable stress:   hour
How to pronounce hour:   our
How to say hour:

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Define hour



noun
  1. A unit of time
  2. A period of 60 minutes
  3. 1/24th of the time it takes the Earth to do 1 full rotation on its axis
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What rhymes with hour

1 syllable
  • bour
  • flour
  • our
  • sou
  • Stour
  • dour
  • lour
  • scour
  • sour
  • tour
2 syllables
  • bower
  • clowlike
  • devour
  • flower
  • Gower
  • plower
  • scourage
  • tower
  • clower
  • cower
  • dower
  • glower
  • lower
  • power
  • shower
3 syllables
  • empower
  • MPH
4 syllables
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