dear heart
"dear-heart" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dear heart” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expressing surprise or emphasis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dear heart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dear heart” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dear heart is 10 letters long, classified as an interjection. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Expressing surprise or emphasis.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dear heart in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is dear heart, spelled D-E-A-R- -H-E-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Expressing surprise or emphasis.
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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Using “dear heart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-A-R- -H-E-A-R-T - 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.