hart
/hɑɹt/noun
hart is spelled H-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “hart vs heart” about 260 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, hart means “A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hart is harts.
How many letters and syllables are in hart?
| Letters | 4: H-A-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is hart?
Hart appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce hart?
- UK /hɑːt/
- US /hɑɹt/
Hart has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-heart.ogg, En-us-hart.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with hart
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: heart.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with hart?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hart from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: rath, tahr.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of hart
- harts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hart mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
- 2
The meat from this animal.
- 3
archaicThe stag of any deer species.
- 4
In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.
It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0.
noun
- 1
Acronym of hazardous area response team.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hart in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense male deer:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hart come from?
From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).