heart and soul
"heart-and-soul" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heart and soul” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The core of a thing; the most essential or important part.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heart and soul |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heart and soul” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
heart and soul is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
heart and soul has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is heart and soul, spelled H-E-A-R-T- -A-N-D- -S-O-U-L.
Definition
- 1The core of a thing; the most essential or important part.
- 2Passion; true commitment.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “heart and soul”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-E-A-R-T- -A-N-D- -S-O-U-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.