mental health
"mental-health" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mental health” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.
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Index EN-mental-health · mental health · English
mental health · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | mental health |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mental health” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mental health is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mental health, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is mental health, spelled M-E-N-T-A-L- -H-E-A-L-T-H.
Definition
- 1One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mental health appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This makes greater efforts to promote wellbeing and to look out for colleagues not just a moral imperative, but a financial one, too. The cost of inaction was recently outlined in a report by Deloitte, which estimated that poor mental health costs employers in the UK up to £45 billion per year.
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.