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- [het, hes; Sephardic Hebrew khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew khes]
- /hɛt, hɛs; Sephardic Hebrew xɛt; Ashkenazic Hebrew xɛs/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [het, hes; Sephardic Hebrew khet; Ashkenazic Hebrew khes]
- /hɛt, hɛs; Sephardic Hebrew xɛt; Ashkenazic Hebrew xɛs/
Definitions of heth word
- noun heth the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. 1
- noun heth the sound represented by this letter. 1
- noun heth The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). 1
- noun heth the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ח), transliterated as h and pronounced as a pharyngeal fricative 0
- abbreviation HETH het 0
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Origin of heth
First appearance:
before 1895 One of the 18% newest English words
First recorded in 1895-1900, heth is from the Hebrew word ḥeth literally, enclosure
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Parts of speech for Heth
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
heth popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 68% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 51% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
heth usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with heth
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