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cah

noun, conjunction

cah is spelled C-A-H: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cah means “Pronunciation spelling of car” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cah is cahs.

How many letters and syllables are in cah?

Letters3: C-A-H
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 59,387th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cah?

Cah appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with cah

Also written: car.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with cah?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cah.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: cha, ach.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of cah

  • cahs plural
  • cuh

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cah mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    USPronunciation spelling of car.

conjunction

  1. 1

    slangBecause.

noun

as CAH
  1. 1

    Initialism of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

  2. 2

    Initialism of calcium aluminate hydrate.

  3. 3

    Initialism of chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbon.

  4. 4

    Initialism of crime against humanity.

  5. 5

    Initialism of critical-access hospital.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cah come from?

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole cah (“because”). Ultimately from English because.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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