blackheart
"blackheart" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blackheart” is uncommon English (frequency #96,786 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,786
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blackheart · blackheart · English
blackheart · rank #96,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,786
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blackbox
Nearest frequency peer: blackbox (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “blackheart”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- biot
biot
3,221 corpus weight
- bizet
bizet
3,218 corpus weight
- blackbox
blackbox
3,216 corpus weight
- blackheart
blackheart
3,215 corpus weight
- blares
blares
3,213 corpus weight
- Bodi
Bodi
3,209 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blackheart” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blackheart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #96,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blackheart” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blackheart is uncommon English at frequency #96,786 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for blackheart, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From black + heart. The correct English form is blackheart, spelled B-L-A-C-K-H-E-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
- 2Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.
- 3A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
- 4A cruel and remorseless person.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blackheart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are cherries enough for all, as when we planted we took into consideration the needs of our feathered neighbors, so the birds do not miss the fruit when on our breakfast table appears a great wooden bowl —you have no idea what an artistic bit the chopping bowl becomes when utilized in this way—filled with clusters of blackheart and white-heart cherr…
“Here travelers sat beneath a great blackheart cherry tree growing among white rosebushes by the fence,” notes a 1937 American Guide Series book, “and watched the busy river traffic while they waited for supper.”
Etymology
From black + heart.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).