heath
/hiːθ/noun
heath is spelled H-E-A-T-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, heath means “A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of heath is heaths.
How many letters and syllables are in heath?
| Letters | 5: H-E-A-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is heath?
Heath appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 heath?
- /hiːθ/
Heath has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-heath.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-heath.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of heath
- heaths plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does heath mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
- 2
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
- 3
in Erica spp.
- 4
in Cassiope spp.
- 5
in Daboecia spp.
- 6
in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
- 7
in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
- 8
in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Heath in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lande, bruyère |
| German | Heide |
| Portuguese | charneca , urze |
| Spanish | páramo, brezal , brezo |
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 heath come from?
From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).