healthcare
/ˈhɛlθkɛɚ/noun
healthcare is spelled H-E-A-L-T-H-C-A-R-E. The wrong spelling people search most is heathcare: about 310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 76 of all searches for the word. Healthcare is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of health care”. The plural of healthcare is healthcares.
How many letters and syllables are in healthcare?
| Letters | 10: H-E-A-L-T-H-C-A-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,161st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, heathcare, about 310 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How do you spell healthcare?
Healthcare is spelled H-E-A-L-T-H-C-A-R-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 76 of the searches for healthcare in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is healthcare?
Healthcare appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,161st 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 healthcare?
- US /ˈhɛlθkɛɚ/
- /ˈhɛltkɛɐ/
- /ˈhɛltkɛɚ/
Healthcare has 2 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-healthcare.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with healthcare
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: health-care (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of healthcare
- healthcares plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does healthcare mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of health care.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does healthcare come from?
From health + care.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).