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 September 3, 2026) - The core of a thing; the most essential or important part.
Corpus desk
Index EN-heart-and-soul · heart and soul · English
heart and soul · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heart and soul |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “heart and soul” in English
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how heart and soul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The heart and soul of any democracy is its electorate.
She put her heart and soul into the project.
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.