faith
/feɪθ/
"faith" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faith” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,597
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
Corpus desk
Index EN-faith · faith · English
faith · rank #1,597 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH failed
Nearest frequency peer: failed (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “faith”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- click
click
98,407 corpus weight
- estate
estate
98,406 corpus weight
- failed
failed
98,405 corpus weight
- faith
faith
98,404 corpus weight
- fashion
fashion
98,403 corpus weight
- feature
feature
98,402 corpus weight
What this shows “faith” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faith |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /feɪθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “faith”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around faith (IPA /feɪθ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,597 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for faith, with forms such as "afith", "faiht", and "faithh". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fit", "fat", "fast", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventu… The correct English form is faith, spelled F-A-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- 2A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
- 3A religious or spiritual belief system.
- 4An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
- 5Credibility or truth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faith appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
Etymology
From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afith
- faiht
- faithh
- faitth
- fatih
- ffaith
- fiath
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faith - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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