in favour of
"in-favour-of" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“in favour of” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a preposition - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of in favor of.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | in favour of |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “in favour of” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for in favour of is 12 letters long, classified as a preposition. 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: "Alternative spelling of in favor of.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for in favour of, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is in favour of, spelled I-N- -F-A-V-O-U-R- -O-F.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of in favor of.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “in favour of”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N- -F-A-V-O-U-R- -O-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.