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-h

-h suffix: used to censor words.

Suffix

-h

  1. (Internet, also) Used to censor words.
    • dick + -h → dih
    • ass + -h → ahh
  2. Used to form new words.
    • brother + -h → bruh
    • no + -h → nah

Origin of -h

An orthographic device that forces the preceding vowel to be read ‘short’: ⟨dih⟩ /dɪ/, ⟨bruh⟩ /bɹʌ/, etc. (not */da͡ɪ, bɹu/). Although the letter h has long been used ad-hoc for this purpose in English — see uh and meh — the practice of clipping content words to humorous effect took off as an Internet meme in 2025 and created a productive association between -h and such clippings.

Questions about -h

What does -h mean?
-h means used to censor words.
What part of speech is -h?
-h is a suffix.

Words near -h in the dictionary

  1. -grel-
  2. -guessr
  3. -gynous
  4. -gyny
  5. -gyre
  6. -h
  7. -h-
  8. -ham
  9. -head
  10. -heads
  11. -hedra

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -h (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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