heart of glass

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for heart of glass is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌhɑːt ə ˈɡlɑːs/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A heart (or by extension, person) in a very fragile romantic state: one that is easily made broken-hearted.".

No misspelling variants are generated for heart of glass in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: By metaphor, from the notion that glass is fragile (easily broken). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is heart of glass, spelled H-E-A-R-T- -O-F- -G-L-A-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.