prime time
noun, adjective
prime time is spelled P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E: 9 letters. As a noun, prime time means “The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in prime time?
| Letters | 9: P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | a phrase: the frequency list counts single words |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you pronounce prime time?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-prime_time.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with prime time
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: primetime (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of prime time
- prime-time
- primetime
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prime time mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 7:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
The station is moving the new comedy to a prime time slot next month.
- 2
The busiest or most important period.
Summer is prime time for road construction.
- 3
Maturity; the state at which a person or product will be accepted by the mainstream.
- 4
obsoleteSpring.
- 5
obsoleteA new period or time of youthfulness; the beginning of something.
adjective
- 1
Showing or broadcasting during prime time.
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of prime time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prime time in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense block of television programming:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | première partie de soirée, heure de plus grande écoute |
| German | Hauptsendezeit, Prime Time |
| Portuguese | horário nobre |
| Spanish | horario central, horario estelar, horario de máxima audiencia |
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.