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Definition: ACH |
ACHNoun1. Alt. of Ache |
Date "ACH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ACH | English | Adrenal Cortical Hormone | N/A |
ACH | French | Association des hôtels chrétiens | Personal Care & Hotels, Religion & Philosophy |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 76.36% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 7.27% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.45% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ACH": a-ach, head-ach, t-ach. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
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). | |
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. | |
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