Verbs That Start With H

116 words Words by letter Checked 9 Oct 2026

These verbs that start with H come from a standard English dictionary used for word games, ranked by how often each word is used in everyday writing. There are 116 verbs starting with H on this page. The 100 most common come first, each with a short meaning, followed by shorter, longer and easier picks and a filter for any ending or length.

H has 116 verbs. Have, help, hope and hear are everyday words that children use from very early on, and help is one of the first requests a toddler learns.

Several H verbs work well for hide-and-seek style games: hide, hunt, hop and hurry. Highlight is a compound with two silent gh pairs. Hesitate is a good word for stories, since it slows a character down at a tense moment.

Verbs starting with H: 116
Most used: have
Longest common one: highlighting 12 letters

Most common verbs that start with H

Ranked by how often the word appears in English text. "Type" is the word's main part of speech.

#	Word	Meaning	Type
1	have	have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense	verb
2	help	give help or assistance; be of service	verb
3	hope	expect and wish	verb
4	hit	cause to move by striking	verb
5	hear	perceive (sound) via the auditory sense	verb
6	happen	come to pass	verb
7	hold	keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,	verb
8	hate	dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards	verb
9	hurt	be the source of pain	verb
10	handle	be in charge of, act on, or dispose of	verb
11	helping	give help or assistance; be of service	verb
12	harry	annoy continually or chronically	verb
13	honor	bestow honor or rewards upon	verb
14	hang	be suspended or hanging	verb
15	hide	prevent from being seen or discovered	verb
16	hanging	be suspended or hanging	verb
17	hunt	pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)	verb
18	hitting	cause to move by striking	verb
19	hire	engage or hire for work	verb
20	hop	jump lightly	verb
21	hook	fasten with a hook	verb
22	highlight	move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent	verb
23	hurry	move very fast	verb
24	heal	heal or recover	verb
25	hurting	be the source of pain	verb
26	hug	squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness	verb
27	hint	drop a hint; intimate by a hint	verb
28	harvest	gather, as of natural products	verb
29	harbour	secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)	verb
30	herald	foreshadow or presage	verb
31	halt	cause to stop	verb
32	hail	praise vociferously	verb
33	haul	draw slowly or heavily	verb
34	hiking	increase	verb
35	hatch	emerge from the eggs	verb
36	hesitate	pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness	verb
37	hustle	cause to move furtively and hurriedly	verb
38	honeymoon	spend a holiday after one's marriage	verb
39	harness	put a harness	verb
40	highlighting	move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent	verb
41	hooks	fasten with a hook	verb
42	hum	sing with closed lips	verb
43	hog	take greedily; take more than one's share	verb
44	haunt	follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to	verb
45	harvesting	gather, as of natural products	verb
46	harden	become hard or harder	verb
47	honoring	bestow honor or rewards upon	verb
48	hush	become quiet or still; fall silent	verb
49	heed	pay close attention to; give heed to	verb
50	hitch	to hook or entangle	verb
51	hurdle	jump a hurdle	verb
52	heist	commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling	verb
53	hinder	be a hindrance or obstacle to	verb
54	hauling	draw slowly or heavily	verb
55	hops	jump lightly	verb
56	hump	round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward	verb
57	hooking	fasten with a hook	verb
58	harass	annoy continually or chronically	verb
59	hamper	prevent the progress or free movement of	verb
60	hover	be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action	verb
61	hawking	sell or offer for sale from place to place	verb
62	hoard	save up as for future use	verb
63	hammering	beat with or as if with a hammer	verb
64	hone	sharpen with a hone	verb
65	hamstring	make ineffective or powerless	verb
66	hurling	throw forcefully	verb
67	hoist	raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help	verb
68	huff	inhale recreational drugs	verb
69	hijack	take arbitrarily or by force	verb
70	hijacking	take arbitrarily or by force	verb
71	hoarding	save up as for future use	verb
72	harrow	draw a harrow over (land)	verb
73	huddle	crowd or draw together	verb
74	humiliate	cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of	verb
75	hiss	make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval	verb
76	hydrate	supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance	verb
77	hardening	become hard or harder	verb
78	hoot	to utter a loud clamorous shout	verb
79	hedging	avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)	verb
80	honk	make a loud noise	verb
81	honeycomb	carve a honeycomb pattern into	verb
82	hasten	act or move at high speed	verb
83	hurl	throw forcefully	verb
84	heave	utter a sound, as with obvious effort	verb
85	heighten	become more extreme	verb
86	hock	leave as a guarantee in return for money	verb
87	holler	shout out	verb
88	hark	listen; used mostly in the imperative	verb
89	heft	lift or elevate	verb
90	hibernate	sleep during winter	verb
91	harmonize	go together	verb
92	haggle	wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)	verb
93	hew	make or shape as with an axe	verb
94	halve	divide by two; divide into halves	verb
95	headquarter	provide with headquarters	verb
96	huffing	inhale recreational drugs	verb
97	hypnotize	induce hypnosis in	verb
98	heckling	comb with a heckle	verb
99	hie	move fast	verb
100	hypothesize	to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds	verb

Positive verbs that start with H

helping
honor
heal
hug
hail
honoring
harmonize

Short verbs that start with H

have
help
hope
hit
hear
hold
hate
hurt
harry
honor
hang
hide
hunt
hire
hop
hook
hurry
heal
hug
hint
halt
hail
haul
hatch
hooks
hum
hog
haunt
hush
heed
hitch
heist
hops
hump
hover
hoard

Long verbs that start with H

highlighting
harvesting
headquarter
hypothesize
hallucinate

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Questions people ask

How many verbs start with H?

This list has 116 verbs starting with H, taken from a standard word-game dictionary and limited to words that appear in real English text.

What are the most common verbs that start with H?

have, help, hope, hit, hear, happen, hold, hate are the most used in everyday English.

What are some long verbs that start with H?

highlight, honeymoon, highlighting, harvesting, hammering.

What are easy verbs that start with H for kids?

have, help, hope, hit, hear, happen are short, everyday examples.

Source: the ENABLE word list (a public-domain dictionary used for word games), ranked by how often each word appears in English text (the open wordfreq project), with short meanings from Princeton WordNet. Offensive words are left out.

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