lionheart
"lionheart" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lionheart” is uncommon English (frequency #50,644 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,644
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A brave, heroic person.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lionheart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lionheart” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lionheart is uncommon English at frequency #50,644 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brave, heroic person.".
lionheart doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 lion + heart, perhaps from Richard the Lionheart. The correct English form is lionheart, spelled L-I-O-N-H-E-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1A brave, heroic person.
Etymology
From lion + heart, perhaps from Richard the Lionheart.
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 “lionheart”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-I-O-N-H-E-A-R-T - 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.