hide-one-s-light-under-a-bushel

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for hide one's light under a bushel is 31 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌhaɪd wʌnz ˈlaɪt ˌʌndɚ‿ə ˈbʊʃl̩/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To conceal one's positive qualities or talents, especially due to modesty or shyness; to avoid attention.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hide one's light under a bushel in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Originally a reference to one of Jesus Christ’s parables recorded in Matthew 5:14–15, Mark 4:21–25, and Luke 8:16–18 of the Bible. For example, in the King James Version the passage from Matthew states (spelling modernized): “Ye are the light of the world. … Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is hide one's light under a bushel, spelled H-I-D-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-I-G-H-T- -U-N-D-E-R- -A- -B-U-S-H-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.