heaven-sent
"heaven-sent" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heaven-sent” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-heaven-sent · heaven-sent · English
heaven-sent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heaven-sent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heaven-sent” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
heaven-sent is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for heaven-sent in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is heaven-sent, spelled H-E-A-V-E-N---S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how heaven-sent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure The guy was absolutely the greatest. Heaven-sent. A pretty youngman into both men & women, but not in their traditional roles!
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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