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haitch

/ˈheɪt͡ʃ/

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dialectal/ˈheːt͡ʃ/

haitch is the alternative form of aitch.

Meaning of aitch

Noun

aitch (plural aitches)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.
    • The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

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Forms of haitch

pluralhaitches
alternative formaitch

Origin of haitch

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.

Words that rhyme with haitch

Questions about haitch

What is haitch the alternative form of?
Haitch is the alternative form of aitch.
How do you pronounce haitch?
Haitch is pronounced /ˈheɪt͡ʃ/.

Words near haitch in the dictionary

  1. Haislips
  2. Haisyn
  3. Haital
  4. Haitals
  5. Haitang
  6. haitch
  7. haitches
  8. Haith
  9. Haithal
  10. Haithals
  11. Haithcock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haitch (page history and authors); aitch (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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