uh
/ˈʌ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
intj
Expression of discomfort or reservation; a hesitation preceding awkward information or innuendo.
intj
Space filler or pause during conversation.
noun
An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
Example Sentences
- "Uh, who was that?"
- "He's receiving some, uh, special attention from the manager."
- "Uh, let me see..."
- "As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er."
- "And the very highly paid legal defense team for Alec Baldwin, uh basically Manhattan lawyers from uh Emmanuel Quinn, a top 50 worldwide law firm, highly paid."
- "Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s."