# health

> English word · Noun · IPA /hɛlθ/ · frequency rank #345

## Definitions
1. The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
2. A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
3. Physical condition.
4. Cure, remedy.
5. A toast to prosperity.
6. The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole, hale, or heal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). More at heal. Doublet of wholth.

## Easily confused with
- **heat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-heat)
- **heart** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-heart)
- **heath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-heath)
- **heats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-heats)
- **Healy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-healy)
- **hearts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-hearts)
- **hearty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-hearty)
- **hearth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-hearth)
- **healthy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/health-vs-healthy)
- **heal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heal-vs-health)
- **halt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/halt-vs-health)
- **hath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hath-vs-health)
- **heals** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heals-vs-health)
- **halts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/halts-vs-health)
- **healed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healed-vs-health)
- **healer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healer-vs-health)
- **Healey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healey-vs-health)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ehalth`, `haelth`, `healht`, `heallth`, `healthh`, `healtth`, `heatlh`, `helath`, `hhealth`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/health