aitch
/ˈeɪt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.64 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The name of the Latin script letter H/h.
name
A surname.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of aitch.
Example Sentences
- "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."
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.