disheartened

adj

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"disheartened" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“disheartened” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,294
frequency rank, English
3,470
“D” headwords
18
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discouraged, despairing.

Corpus desk

Index EN-disheartened · disheartened · English

disheartened · rank #39,294 · 18 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #39,294
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 18 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,470
  • PHOTO-FINISH disaffected

Nearest frequency peer: disaffected (-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.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “disheartened”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “disheartened” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for disheartened
PropertyValue
Headworddisheartened
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Frequency rank#39,294
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “disheartened”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).disheartenedlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “disaffected” (#39,293), “dispossessed” (#39,295), “dingo” (#39,292). Among 3,470 “D” headwords, “disheartened” is #39,294. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around disheartened, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,294 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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

  1. 1
    Discouraged, despairing.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how disheartened appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He refused to get disheartened, even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.

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.

ddisheartened1dihseartened2disehartened2dishaertened2dishearetned2dishearrtened1dishearteend2disheartende2
Edit distance from "disheartened"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disheartened"?
"disheartened" is spelled D-I-S-H-E-A-R-T-E-N-E-D.
What does "disheartened" mean?
As an adjective, "disheartened" means: Discouraged, despairing.
What are common misspellings of "disheartened"?
Common misspellings include "ddisheartened", "dihseartened", "disehartened", "dishaertened", "dishearetned". The correct spelling is "disheartened".
What language does "disheartened" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "disheartened", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dispossessed#39,295inactivation#39,364blackmailing#39,215unstructured#39,150

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list