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haha

interjection, verb, noun

haha is spelled H-A-H-A: 4 letters. It appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, haha means “An onomatopoeic representation of laughter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in haha?

Letters4: H-A-H-A
In writing34 times per million words; the 2,831st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is haha?

Haha appears 34 times per million words in written English, the 2,831st 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).

How do you pronounce haha?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-haha.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with haha

Also written: ha-ha (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of haha

  • ha ha
  • ha-ha
  • hah hah
  • hahas present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • haha's present, singular, he/she/it
  • hahaing participle, present
  • haha'ing participle, present
  • haha-ing participle, present
  • hahaed participle, past
  • haha'd participle, past
  • haha'ed participle, past
  • haha-ed participle, past

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

What does haha mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    An onomatopoeic representation of laughter.

verb

  1. 1

    To laugh.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached.

  2. 2

    A large leafy Hawaiian plant, Gunnera petaloidea.

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

Haha in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense representation of laughter:

LanguageWords
Frenchhaha
Germanhaha
Portuguesehaha, kkk, hue
Spanishjaja

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does haha come from?

From Middle English haha, ha ha, from Old English ha ha (interjection), ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Frisian haha (interjection), Middle Low German hahā, hahahā (interjection), Middle High German hahā, haha (interjection), all expressions of joy or of laughter.

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

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