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h

Spanish, letter

h is spelled H (one letter) and appears 89 times per million words in written Spanish, the 987th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). H is a Spanish letter meaning “The eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, H is a different word: “The eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Octava letra del alfabeto español y sexta consonante. Su nombre es hache”.

What does h mean in English?

letter

  1. 1

    The eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

letter

as H
  1. 1

    The eighth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

letter: 1. Octava letra del alfabeto español y sexta consonante. Su nombre es hache.

letter: 1. Octava letra del alfabeto español y sexta consonante. Su nombre es hache.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of h

  • H uppercase
  • h lowercase

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to h

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is h in Spanish?

h appears 89 times per million words in written Spanish.

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

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