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heartsease

noun

heartsease is spelled H-E-A-R-T-S-E-A-S-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, heartsease means “A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of heartsease is heartseases.

How many letters and syllables are in heartsease?

Letters10: H-E-A-R-T-S-E-A-S-E
In writingabout once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 common is heartsease?

Heartsease appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).

How do you pronounce heartsease?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-heartsease.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of heartsease

  • heartseases plural
  • heart's-ease
  • heart's ease

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

What does heartsease mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy.

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

Heartsease in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a common European wild flower:

LanguageWords
Germanwildes Stiefmütterchen
Spanishpensamiento silvestre

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.

Where does heartsease come from?

From heart + -s- + ease: an infusion made from the plant is traditionally believed to cure lovesickness.

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

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