leap of faith

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for leap of faith is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "The act of believing in something despite lack of proof of its truth or existence, or the attempt of something without being sure of its possible outcome.".

No misspelling variants are generated for leap of faith in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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: Often attributed to Søren Kierkegaard, although he never used the exact wording. 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 leap of faith, spelled L-E-A-P- -O-F- -F-A-I-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.