heard
/ˈhɝd/adjective, interjection, verb
heard is spelled H-E-A-R-D. The wrong spelling people search most is heared: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Heard is an adjective meaning “That has been perceived aurally”.
How many letters and syllables are in heard?
| Letters | 5: H-E-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 186 times per million words; the 546th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, heared, about 120 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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 do you spell heard?
Heard is spelled H-E-A-R-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for heard 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 heard?
Heard appears 186 times per million words in written English, the 546th 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 heard?
- UK /ˈhɜːd/
- /hɔːd/
- US /ˈhɝd/
Heard 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-us-heard.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with heard
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: herd (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: herd.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with heard?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as heard from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹd/):
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).
What does heard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
That has been perceived aurally.
interjection
- 1
colloquialI understand; gotcha.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of hear
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).