brokenhearted
"brokenhearted" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“brokenhearted” is uncommon English (frequency #65,749 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,749
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Grieved and disappointed, especially by the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the end of a romantic relationship.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brokenhearted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brokenhearted” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
brokenhearted is uncommon English at frequency #65,749 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grieved and disappointed, especially by the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the end of a romantic relationship.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for brokenhearted in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From broken + hearted. The correct English form is brokenhearted, spelled B-R-O-K-E-N-H-E-A-R-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Grieved and disappointed, especially by the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the end of a romantic relationship.
Etymology
From broken + hearted.
This word in other languages
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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Using “brokenhearted”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-O-K-E-N-H-E-A-R-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.