Although you never aspirate (pronounce) the h in French, the definitive work on the French language, Le bon usage from Maurice Grévisse, lists 189 words with an h aspiré. With these 189 words you cannot use elision or make liaison. For example, the word hibou (owl) is a masculine noun; you can say le hibou, but not l’hibou and you cannot make liaison between les and hiboux (les (z)hiboux). For more details about elision and liaison, please review pages 13-16 in my PDF Introduction to French pronunciation.I have listed the most frequent words with an h aspiré in the following document: The H aspiré
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