alarm clock
"alarm-clock" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alarm clock” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A clock designed to sound an alert at a preset time, primarily to wake someone from sleep.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alarm-clock · alarm clock · English
alarm clock · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alarm clock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alarm clock” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alarm clock is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A clock designed to sound an alert at a preset time, primarily to wake someone from sleep.".
Zero misspellings are on record for alarm clock in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is alarm clock, spelled A-L-A-R-M- -C-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A clock designed to sound an alert at a preset time, primarily to wake someone from sleep.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alarm clock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"I should suggest an alarum clock," he said briskly. "I always use one myself for fear of oversleeping.[…]"
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.