# hour vs hourly

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### hourly
*adjective · IPA /ˈaʊ̯əli/ · frequency rank #11,043*
Occurring every hour.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hour-vs-hourly