High-pitched

Definitions: High-pitched

High-pitched

Adjective

1. Used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency.

2. Set at a sharp or high angle or slant; "a high-pitched roof".

Date "high-pitched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Synonym: High-pitched

Synonym: high (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: low (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	High-pitched hum (reference) The High-Pitched Laugh of a Painted Lady (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	High-pitched vocalization from a chimpanzee.		Cash counter counting out bills and finishing with a high-pitched beep.
	High-pitched beeping of Morse code.		Synthetic high-pitched tanker horn blowing.
	High-pitched long beep.		High-pitched mosquito buzz.
	High-pitched caw of a barn owl.		High-pitched electric piano notes.
	High-pitched fading chord.		High-pitched tone.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		High-pitched sounds such as "s" and "th" are difficult to hear and tell apart. (references)
		The loss associated with presbycusis is usually greater for high-pitched sounds. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"High-pitched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.10% of the time. "High-pitched" is used about 223 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
Adjective (general or positive)	99.1%	221	20,297
Noun (singular)	0.9%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	223	N/A

Language		Translations for "high-pitched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		стръмен покрив (high-pitched roof). (various references)

Dutch		topgevel (high-pitched gable). (various references)

Finnish		kimeä (piercing, shrill). (various references)

French		pignon droit (high-pitched gable). (various references)

German		Dreiecksgiebel (high-pitched gable). (various references)

Hungarian		meredek (acclivous, arduous, be steeped, bluff, bluffy, close call, hairy, headlong, precipitous, prone, steep, sticky). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�高い (shrill). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"� かい (shrill), �"う� か (high in the instep), �"�"ばしった (shrill). (various references)

Manx		ughtagh (ascent, bluffness, hill, hillside, ramp, rising ground, shelving), geyre (abrupt, acrid, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging). (various references)

Pig Latin		igh-pitchedhay

Russian		высокий (big, high, high pitched, high-flown, lengthy, lofty, sky high, soaring, tall). (various references)

Thai		(เสียง) สูง. (various references)

Vietnamese		cao thượng (elevated, high, high-spirited, lordly, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded, nobly), cao cả (greatly, high-spirited), cao (aloft, high, lofty, superior, towering, upper). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"High-pitched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: highpitched. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-h-h-h-i-i-p-t"
	-4 letters: heighth, highted, hitched, pitched, thighed.
	-5 letters: citied, depict, eighth, height, highth, itched, pithed, pitied.
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