aitch

See also Aitch.

English

Alternative forms

• haitch

Pronunciation

• enPR: āch, IPA: /eɪtʃ/, X-SAMPA: /eItS/
• Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Noun

aitch (plural aitches)

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

   The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

   Cockneys drop their aitches.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Translations

name of the letter H, h

• Arabic: إتش (ar) ('eych) m, ها (ar) (haa) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Esperanto: ho (eo)
• Finnish: hoo (fi)
• French: âche (fr) m and f, ache (fr) m and f
• German: Ha (de) n
• Hawaiian: hē
• Hindi: एच (hi) (ēc)
• Hungarian: há (hu)
• Irish: héis (ga)

• Italian: acca (it)
• Japanese: エイチ (ja) (eichi)
• Korean: 에이치 (ko) (eichi)
• Latin: hā (la)
• Malay: ec (ms)
• Marathi: एच (mr) (eca)
• Portuguese: agá (pt) m
• Russian: эйч (ru) (ejč) n (English), аш (ru) (aš) c, ха (ru) (xa) n
• Spanish: hache (es) f
• Swedish: hå (sv) n
• Turkish: he (tr)
• Vietnamese: hắt (vi), hờ (vi)

Anagrams

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