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aitch

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈeɪt͡ʃ/

Definition of aitch

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.
    “The word hour is written with a silent aitch.”
    “Cockneys drop their aitches.”
    “The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.”
    “"If you've got any drawing-room manners, or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or dropping aitches, you'd better chuck 'em away. They ain't no further use."”
    “She frowned, hearing Lim Cheng Po's voice, so English, so refined, so very English upper-class. And often she had had to tell Joe about his aitches.”
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noun

  1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.
    “The word hour is written with a silent aitch.”
    “Cockneys drop their aitches.”
    “The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.”
    “"If you've got any drawing-room manners, or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or dropping aitches, you'd better chuck 'em away. They ain't no further use."”
    “She frowned, hearing Lim Cheng Po's voice, so English, so refined, so very English upper-class. And often she had had to tell Joe about his aitches.”
  2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of aitch.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English ache, borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca. The source is unclear, but may descend from the vowelless alphabetic sequence ha ka 'H, K' (becoming [aka] when the [h] ceased to be pronounced), as K had low frequency in Late Latin. Doublet of ecchi.

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