heart-warming
adjective
heart-warming is spelled H-E-A-R-T-W-A-R-M-I-N-G: 12 letters. As an adjective, heart-warming means “Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in heart-warming?
| Letters | 12: H-E-A-R-T-W-A-R-M-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| In writing | a phrase: the frequency list counts single words |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce heart-warming?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-heartwarming.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with heart-warming
Also written: heartwarming (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of heart-warming
- more heart-warming comparative
- most heart-warming superlative
- heartwarming
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does heart-warming mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Heart-warming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense eliciting tenderness and sympathy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | attendrissant, touchant, qui fait chaud au cœur |
| German | herzerwärmend, herzlich, herzerfrischend |
| Portuguese | animador |
| Spanish | conmovedor, cálido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.