Hart or heart?
hart is a noun meaning “A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year”; heart is a noun meaning “A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be…”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) heart is about 19 times as common as hart.
What is the difference between hart and heart?
| hart | heart | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb |
| Meaning | A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year The meat from this animal In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread | A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character informalTo be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol |
| Example | It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0 | She has a cold heart |
| Forms | harts | hearts |
| Pronunciation | /hɑːt/ /hɑɹt/ | /hɑːʔ/ /hɑːt/ |
| In writing | 11 times per million words | 204 times per million words |
Sources: hart and heart in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of hart and heart
hart
- 1
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year
- 2
In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread
It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0
- 3
Acronym of hazardous area response team
- 4
The meat from this animal
heart
- 1
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion
- 2
informalTo be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol
- 3
One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character
She has a cold heart
- 4
To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤)
She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs
- 5
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality
a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
- 6
To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater
- 7
Compassion
If she had any heart she'd forgive me
- 8
To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, hart or heart?
hart appears 11 times per million words; heart 204 times per million words.
hart 11 times per million wordsheart 204 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search hart vs heart?
“hart vs heart” is searched about 260 times a month on Google and 20 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“heart vs hart”, “hart or heart”).
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