hhs

Other forms of hhs

plural

hhses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hhs

What does hhs mean?

hhs means "the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979".

How many syllables are in hhs?

hhs has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hhs?

Close synonyms include Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hhs a common word?

hhs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.