heart: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with H · ends with T
Meaning of heart
noun
- countable, uncountable
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
- uncountable
One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
Example: She has a cold heart.
- countable, uncountable
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.
Example: a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart
- countable, uncountable
Compassion.
Example: If she had any heart she'd forgive me.
Listed forms: hearts, hart, hearte.
Source: Wiktionary — heart.
verb
- humorous, informal, transitive
To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
- transitive
To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
Example: She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
- transitive
To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
- intransitive
To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
Listed forms: hearts, hearting, hearted, hart, hearte.
Source: Wiktionary — heart.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for heart.
noun
the locus of feelings and intuitions
noun
the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
noun
the courage to carry on
noun
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is heart in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of heart
H(4) + E(1) + A(1) + R(1) + T(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of heart
3 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from heart
42 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in heart. Showing up to 24, longest first.