congenital heart defect
"congenital-heart-defect" is a 21-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“congenital heart defect” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels present at birth.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congenital heart defect |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “congenital heart defect” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
congenital heart defect is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels present at birth.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for congenital heart defect in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is congenital heart defect, spelled C-O-N-G-E-N-I-T-A-L- -H-E-A-R-T- -D-E-F-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1A defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels present at birth.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-G-E-N-I-T-A-L- -H-E-A-R-T- -D-E-F-E-C-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.