heart
HEART is a Wordle answer that scores 8 points in Scrabble, and it has four anagrams: EARTH, HATER, RATHE and THRAE.
Noun 4 meanings
A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.
“She has a cold heart.”
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.
“a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart”
Compassion.
“If she had any heart she'd forgive me.”
Verb 4 meanings
To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
“2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio”
To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
“She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.”
To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
Etymology
From Middle English harte, heorrte, hert, herte, hierte, hirte, horte, huerte, hurte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hertā, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”), from *ḱerd- (“heart”). Doublet of cardia; see also core.
Similar and opposite words
HEART is the organ that pumps blood, and the traditional seat of emotion and feeling. As a Wordle answer it is a solid, high-coverage word with A and E both included. At rank 465 and a count of 213,914, it is a word nearly every player knows.
HEART at a glance
- Five letters: H, E, A, R, T.
- Base score 8, with H at 4.
- Anagrams: EARTH, HATER, RATHE and THRAE.
- Five neighbours, including HEARD, HEARS and PEART.
How good is HEART as a Wordle guess?
HEART sits on the answer list and is an allowed guess. Five different letters, two of them vowels, make it a broad probe: H, E, A, R and T are all tested at once.
Because EARTH, HATER, RATHE and THRAE use the same letters, a board of five yellows can leave several words alive.
One more reason to guess it early: A and E are the two most useful vowels to confirm, and H, R and T fill out a frame that many common words share. EARTH, for instance, keeps all five letters in a different order, so the first guess can still carry a strong hint about the second.
Which anagram of HEART should you pick?
EARTH is the one most players recognise, followed by HATER. RATHE and THRAE are rare, so check your game’s word list before using them. All four are worth 8 in Scrabble, the same as HEART.
With all five letters yellow, start with the common ones, EARTH and HATER, before the rarities.
What are the neighbours and patterns?
The five neighbours are HEARD, HEARS, PEART, HEARE and HEAST. HEARD scores 9, since D is worth 2, while HEARS ties HEART at 8.
Of 12,789 five-letter words, 486 start with H, about 4 percent, and 721 end in T, about 6 percent. The -ART tail matches PART, START, SMART, APART and CHART.
Rhymes with heart
All rhymesOne letter away
- HEARD9
- HEARS8
- PEART7
- HEARE8
- HEAST8
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