# healthful

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #37,022

## Definitions
1. Beneficial to bodily health.
2. Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
3. Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).

## Etymology
From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful.

## Common misspellings (14)
`ehalthful`, `haelthful`, `healhtful`, `heallthful`, `healtfhul`, `healthfful`, `healthflu`, `healthfull`, `healthhful`, `healthufl`, `healtthful`, `heatlhful`, `helathful`, `hhealthful`

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