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hearting

noun, verb

hearting is spelled H-E-A-R-T-I-N-G: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hearting means “Material used as fill between walls of greater structural integrity, especially in masonry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hearting is heartings.

How many letters and syllables are in hearting?

Letters8: H-E-A-R-T-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 65 million words; the 252,559th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is hearting?

Hearting appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).

What rhymes with hearting?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as hearting.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: earthing.

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).

Forms of hearting

  • heartings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does hearting mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Material used as fill between walls of greater structural integrity, especially in masonry.

    The masons used rubble from their trimming of the face rocks as some of the hearting for the wall.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of heart (a form of heart)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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