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Spell Bee Word: Hour


What does hour mean?

Word: Hour

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Hour means a unit of time that is 60 minutes long.

Sounds like: our (belonging to us)

How do you spell hour?

Syllables: hour

Tricky part: The h is silent, so hour sounds exactly like the word that means belonging to us. Children often leave the h out.

Watch out for: ouer, houre

Memory tip: Think of the h in hour as a clock hand that never ticks: it is there on the page but makes no sound.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. the eleventh hour: the last possible moment Example: "Marco finished his project at the eleventh hour, just before school."

Hour in a sentence

Example 1: The train was an hour late.

Example 2: I read for half an hour before bed.

Example 3: Our maths class lasts one hour.

Fun Fact

Hour came into English through French and Latin from the Greek hora. Horoscope comes from hora too: it first meant watching the hour of a person's birth.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We waited for half an howr at the bus stop.

a) waited
b) half
c) howr
d) stop

Show answer

c) howr. Hour starts with a silent h and ends in our.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) minnute
b) seccond
c) hour
d) evning

Show answer

c) hour. Second keeps a single c, which seccond has doubled; minnute and evning are wrong as well.

Word Makeup

Choose the correct suffix to add to the word:

hour

a) ley
b) lie
c) lee
d) ly

Show answer

d) ly. Hourly, meaning once every hour, takes a plain ly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours are there in two days?

a) 24
b) 36
c) 60
d) 48

Show answer

d) 48

2. Which of these usually lasts longer than one hour?

a) a song on the radio
b) brushing your teeth
c) boiling an egg
d) a full school day

Show answer

d) a full school day

Associated Words

More Class 3 Summer Spell Bee words starting with ho: hover, homesick, honesty, hockey, hood

More words from this list

magnifier, plain, shame, triumph, appeal, caramel, cycling, failure

Next steps

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