# hound vs hour

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### hound
*noun · IPA /haʊnd/ · frequency rank #16,494*
A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.

### hour
*noun · IPA /aʊə/ · frequency rank #675*
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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