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“Height” or “Hight”

height / hight are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

height hh·AY·t

  • nounthe vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top.

hight hh·AY·t

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

Usage

Examples in context

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“height”

  • …Monterey Pop Festival at the height of The Summer of Love.
  • …that one dials in the height of the object.
  • At their height, there may have been over…
  • …Bokoni population at the society's height to be somewhere in the…
  • …well over 2 meters in height.
  • He arrived at the height of swinging London with Cream…
  • …shrub which may reach in height and bears small pomes about
  • …a beam of , a height of , and a draught…
  • …in Russia is at its height.
  • …by the back knife for height to paper (.918") and then…

“hight”

  • …of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families by David Webster Hoyt…
  • That Raggland hight, stands moted almost round

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