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| 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 |
AHH | English | Acryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases | Chemical Industry |
AHH | French | Acryl-hydrocarbure-hydroxylase | Chemical Industry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ahh, no one would call you stupid, to your face (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal.) Ahh, look at all that pink and purple (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Ahh! P-Peter Pa- blast you. (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings) Ahh what I wouldn't give for a drag (Ghost; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin) Ahh, passive resistance (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
Lyrics | Ahh, it'll take a little time, might take a little crime to come undone (Come Undone; performing artist: Duran Duran) Ooh ahh, ooh ahh, love is understanding (Rescue Me; performing artist: Madonna) Oh yeah that without you girl ahh (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo) Said without you girl ahh (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Open Wide and Say Ahh! 6 (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Debutante reading with cat and owl:] ahh, abash, accouchment, ape, acorn, oa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Minding the Gap" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Somebady taking the time to Mind the Gap. ahh the underground. I'm tellin you we was sweating like animals on it over the summer. yummy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "AHH" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "AHH" is used about 38 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 | 97.37% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ahh grits lyrics ooh | 8 |
ahh bag bean | 5 |
ahh grits lyrics ohh | 3 |
ahh say shawna | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AHH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | ах (ah). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hah. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-h" | |
-1 letter: ah, ha. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-h" | |
+1 letter: haha, hahs, hash, hath, shah. | |
+2 letters: ephah, hahas, harsh, hatch, haugh, heath, horah, hypha, khaph, shahs. | |
+3 letters: ahchoo, aphtha, chalah, chaleh, chetah, ephahs, hadith, hallah, halvah, hamzah, hashed, hashes, haughs, haunch, health, hearth, heaths, heathy, heehaw, hookah, hoorah, horahs, houdah, howdah, hurrah, huzzah, hyphae, hyphal, jubhah, khaphs, khedah, rehash, rhaphe, shaugh, sheath, shibah, shivah, thatch, thrash, whidah, whydah. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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