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ACH

Definition: ACH

ACH

Noun

1. Alt. of Ache

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ACH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: ACH

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ACH

EnglishAdrenal Cortical HormoneN/A

ACH

FrenchAssociation des hôtels chrétiensPersonal Care & Hotels, Religion & Philosophy

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ACH

Specialty definitions using "ACH": mixed tide. (references)
Etymologies containing "ACH": Smallage. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ACH" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (oh), Czech (hah), Dutch (ah, aha, oh, ow, woe), German (ah, aha, alas, oh), Irish (apart from, but, except, other than), Scottish (but, except, interjection of objection and impatience), Welsh (ancestry, degree of kinship, pedigree, ugh).

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Modern Usage: ACH

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ach, Mary (Rob Roy; writing credit: Alan Sharp)

Movie/TV Titles

Ach jodel mir noch einen (1974)

So eine nette Person Ach (1970)

Du fröhliche Ach (1962)

Ach Egon! (1961)

Du Ach (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ACH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ach Butt, Dein Marchen Geht Bose Aus (reference)

  • History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab Moors, with a Sketch of the Civilization Which They Ach (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ACH

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Dupuytren. / Ach. Martinet del et sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ach, Gott! it will kill me!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ach! vot a discord!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ach -- well there's not much for a fellow to do anymore anyways!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ach, it's sour too!. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACH

"ACH" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 76.36% of the time. "ACH" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Interjection76.36%4252,864
Lexical Verb (base form)9.09%5157,705
Unclassified Items7.27%4175,879
Noun (proper)5.45%3202,518
Noun (singular)1.82%1339,140
                    Total100.00%55N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: ACH

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ACH": a-ach, head-ach, t-ach.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ach int.com pac

370

ach check rebate

7

ach

317

ach check micr printing

7

ach processing

77

ach by rebate

7

ach software

57

ach services

7

ach check

51

ach casino echeck

7

ach processor

46

ach debit

6

ach payment

39

ach com int pac

6

ach int pac

26

ach definition

6

ach merchant account

24

ach int.com pai

6

ach food

23

12 ach.asp achievement k learning.gov.ab.ca previous test testing

6

ach check processing

18

ach transactions

6

ach br int.com pac

12

ach national

6

ach processing software

11

ach stomach

5

ach network

10

ach eft

5

ach international

9

ach origination software

4

ach company food

9

ach commerce

4

ach canadian

8

ach automated clearing deposit direct house

4

ach transfer

8

ach file

4

ach rule

7

ach direct

4

ach fulfillment house

7

ach form

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ACH

Language Translations for "ACH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Scottish

  

beag (all but, little, little : ach beag, small). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ACH

Derivations

Words beginning with "ACH": achalasia, achalasias, ache, ached, achene, achenes, achenial, aches, achier, achiest, achievable, achieve, achieved, achievement, achievements, achiever, achievers, achieves, achieving, achillea, achilleas, achiness, achinesses, aching, achingly, achiote, achiotes, achlorhydria, achlorhydrias, achlorhydric, acholia, acholias, achondrite, achondrites, achondritic, achondroplasia, achondroplasias, achondroplastic, achoo, achromat, achromatic, achromatically, achromatism, achromatisms, achromatize, achromatized, achromatizes, achromatizing, achromats, achromic, achy. (additional references)

Words ending with "ACH": abroach, aircoach, amphibrach, approach, attach, bach, beach, bleach, brach, breach, broach, caroach, clach, coach, cockroach, coronach, currach, detach, each, encroach, forereach, impeach, isopach, isotach, kreplach, leach, loach, logomach, mach, misteach, orach, outcoach, outpreach, outreach, overbleach, overcoach, overreach, peach, pleach, poach, potlach, preach, reach, reattach, reproach, reteach, roach, roorbach, seabeach, shadrach, shtetlach. (additional references)

Words containing "ACH": abrachia, abrachias, aircoaches, amphibrachic, amphibrachs, anachronic, anachronism, anachronisms, anachronistic, anachronistically, anachronous, anachronously, antimacho, antipoaching, antirachitic, apache, apaches, approachabilities, approachability, approachable, approached, approaches, approaching, arachnid, arachnids, arachnoid, arachnoids, attachable, attache, attached, attacher, attachers, attaches, attaching, attachment, attachments, bached, bachelor, bachelordom, bachelordoms, bachelorette, bachelorettes, bachelorhood, bachelorhoods, bachelors, baches, baching, backache, backaches, baldachin, baldachino. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ACH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h"

-1 letter: ah, ha.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-h"
 

+1 letter: ache, achy, arch, bach, caph, cash, chad, cham, chao, chap, char, chat, chaw, chay, chia, each, hack, mach, tach.

 

+2 letters: ached, aches, achoo, aitch, batch, beach, brach, cache, cahow, caphs, catch, chads, chafe, chaff, chain, chair, chalk, champ, chams, chang, chant, chaos, chape, chaps, chapt, chard, chare, chark, charm, charr, chars, chart, chary, chase, chasm, chats, chaws, chays, cheap, cheat, chela, chiao, chias, china, chufa, clach, clash, coach, crash, dacha, hacek, hacks, hance, hatch, havoc, laich, larch, latch, leach, loach, mache, macho, machs, march, match, mocha, nacho, natch, nucha, orach, pacha, parch, patch, peach, poach, ranch, ratch, reach, roach, sauch, schav, schwa, shack, tache, tachs, teach, thack, theca, watch, whack, yacht.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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