English homophones
hart/heart
"heart" (#491 written frequency) beats "hart" (#6,692) in this 2-word /hɑːt/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /hɑːt/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "heart" leads at #491, with "hart" trailing at #6,692.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "hart" is 4 letters, "heart" is 5; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across hart, heart: ahrt. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
hart
4 letters · 1 vowels · shape CVCC
Inventory ahrt · no private letters vs siblings
heart
5 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVVCC
Inventory aehrt · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "hart" when you mean: A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
- Write "heart" when you mean: A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (hart, heart). Here's where to go from here.
- "heart" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #491 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: halt · holt. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "hart, heart" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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