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breaktime

noun

breaktime is spelled B-R-E-A-K-T-I-M-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, breaktime means “A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of breaktime is breaktimes.

How many letters and syllables are in breaktime?

Letters9: B-R-E-A-K-T-I-M-E
In writingabout once in every 58 million words; the 237,177th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is breaktime?

Breaktime appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of breaktime

  • breaktimes plural
  • break time

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does breaktime mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    USA break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.

  2. 2

    UKA break for schoolchildren between lessons.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Breaktime in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense break between lessons:

LanguageWords
Frenchrécréation

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does breaktime come from?

From break + time.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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