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sweetheart

sweet·heartUK /ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/noun

sweetheart is spelled S-W-E-E-T-H-E-A-R-T: 10 letters and 2 syllables (sweet·heart). It appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sweetheart means “A person who is always very kind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sweetheart is sweethearts.

How many letters and syllables are in sweetheart?

Letters10: S-W-E-E-T-H-E-A-R-T
Syllables2: sweet·heart
In writing5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is sweetheart?

Sweetheart appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 sweetheart?

  • UK /ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/
  • UK [ˈswɪi̯tˌhɑːt]
  • /ˈswitˌhɑɹt/

Sweetheart has 2 syllables, split sweet·heart in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sweetheart.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sweetheart

  • sweethearts plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sweetheart mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person who is always very kind.

    She is such a sweetheart: she never complains about me being late.

  2. 2

    A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.

    John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.

  3. 3

    A term of endearment, especially for a lover or child.

  4. 4

    USA female member of a college or university fraternity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Sweetheart in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchéri (a person who is always very kind), amante, chérie, amour, ange (a person very much liked or loved by someone –…)
GermanSchatz, herzensguter Mensch, Seele von Mensch (a person who is always very kind), Liebchen, Liebling (a person very much liked or loved by someone –…)
Portuguesegentil, meigo (a person who is always very kind), amor, tesouro, doçura, querido (a person very much liked or loved by someone –…)
Spanishdulzura (a person who is always very kind), corazón (a person very much liked or loved by someone –…)

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 sweetheart come from?

From Middle English swete heorte, swete hert (term of endearment); equivalent to sweet + heart.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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