o'clock
/əˈklɑk/
The verdict
“o'clock” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #90,167 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #90,167
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En punto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | o'clock |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /əˈklɑk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “o'clock” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for o'clock is 7 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈklɑk/. Corpus data places it at rank #90,167 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En punto.".
Zero misspellings are on record for o'clock in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is o'clock, spelled O-'-C-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1En punto.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “o'clock”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-'-C-L-O-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈklɑk/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.