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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

haitch

/ˈheɪt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables
haitch
IPA
/ˈheɪt͡ʃ/
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of aitch.

Australian usage

Etymology

A nineteenth-century Hiberno-English phonological overlay of the early medieval Irish Gaelic héis and Middle English aitch. Héis is a graphemic mapping of Classical Latin ha, borrowed into Irish Gaelic to represent the autochthonous phoneme. Middle English aitch derives from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, from Classical Latin ha. See the Wikipedia article about the letter.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

haitches (plural) aitch (alternative)

Rhymes With

mph ache kph aitch

Questions

How do you pronounce haitch?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈheɪt͡ʃ/.
What does haitch mean?
Alternative form of aitch.
Where does haitch come from?
It is traced to Old French.

How to pronounce haitch

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