Meanings
aitch1
plural aitches · alternative Australia Ireland UK proscribed sometimes haitch · alternative rare ache
- The name of the Latin script letter H/h.
Cockneys drop their aitches.
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The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged"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."
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257She 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.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 469
Aitch2
- A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Vulgar Latin*acca
- Old Frenchache
- Middle Englishache
- Englishaitch
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.
More words from Middle English, Old French, Vulgar Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic إِتْش, هَا
- إِتْش (ʔeytš)name of the letter H, h
- هَا (hā)name of the letter H, h
Bengali এইচ
- এইচ (eic)name of the letter H, h
Bulgarian хаш
- хаш (haš)name of the letter H, h
Catalan hac
- hacname of the letter H, h
Chinese Mandarin H (éichi)
- H (éichi)name of the letter H, h
Czech há
- háname of the letter H, h
Dutch haa
- haaname of the letter H, h
Esperanto ho
- honame of the letter H, h
Finnish hoo
- hooname of the letter H, h
French âche, ache
- âchename of the letter H, h
- achename of the letter H, h
German Ha
- Haname of the letter H, h
Greek έιτς
- έιτς (éits)name of the letter H, h
Hawaiian hē
- hēname of the letter H, h
Hindi एच
- एच (ec)name of the letter H, h
Hungarian há
- háname of the letter H, h
Icelandic há
- háname of the letter H, h
Indonesian ha
- haname of the letter H, h
Irish héis
- héisname of the letter H, h
Italian acca
- accaname of the letter H, h
Japanese エイチ
- エイチ (eichi)name of the letter H, h
Korean 에이치
- 에이치 (eichi)name of the letter H, h
Latin hā
- hāname of the letter H, h
Latvian hā
- hāname of the letter H, h
Lithuanian ha
- haname of the letter H, h
Malay hec
- hecname of the letter H, h
Persian هاش, ایچ
- هاش (hâš)name of the letter H, h
- ایچ (eyč)name of the letter H, h
Polish ha, samo ha
- haname of the letter H, h
- samo haname of the letter H, h
Portuguese agá
- agáname of the letter H, h
Romanian haș
- hașname of the letter H, h
Russian эйч, аш
- эйч (ejč)name of the letter H, h
- аш (aš)name of the letter H, h
- ха (xa)name of the letter H, h
Spanish hache
- hachename of the letter H, h
Swedish hå
- håname of the letter H, h
Tagalog eyts, ha (Abakada)
- eytsname of the letter H, h
- ha (Abakada)name of the letter H, h
- atsename of the letter H, h
Thai เอช, เฮช
- เอช (éech)name of the letter H, h
- เฮช (héech)name of the letter H, h
Turkish he
- hename of the letter H, h
Ukrainian ейч, аш
- ейч (ejč)name of the letter H, h
- аш (aš)name of the letter H, h
- га (ha)name of the letter H, h
Vietnamese hắt, hờ
- hắtname of the letter H, h
- hờname of the letter H, h
Welsh aetsh
- aetshname of the letter H, h
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with aitch
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Cite this entry
aitch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aitch
“aitch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aitch. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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