disheartened
"disheartened" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disheartened” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #39,294 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #39,294
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Discouraged, despairing.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disheartened |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #39,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disheartened” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for disheartened is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #39,294 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Discouraged, despairing.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for disheartened, with forms such as "ddisheartened", "dihseartened", and "disehartened". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is disheartened, spelled D-I-S-H-E-A-R-T-E-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Discouraged, despairing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisheartened,dihseartened,disehartened,dishaertened,dishearetned,dishearrtened,dishearteend,disheartende,disheartenedd,disheartenned,disheartneed,dishearttened,disheatrened,disheratened,dishheartened,dissheartened,dsiheartened,idsheartened
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disheartened - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “disheartened”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-H-E-A-R-T-E-N-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.