heartwood
/ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/
"heartwood" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heartwood” is uncommon English (frequency #89,445 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,445
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heartwood |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heartwood” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
heartwood is uncommon English at frequency #89,445 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhɑɹtˌwʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for heartwood, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From heart + wood. The correct English form is heartwood, spelled H-E-A-R-T-W-O-O-D.
Definition
- 1The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.
Etymology
From heart + wood.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “heartwood”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-E-A-R-T-W-O-O-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.