let him who is without sin cast the first stone

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for let him who is without sin cast the first stone is 47 letters long, classified as a phrase. 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: "Only those who are faultless have the right to pass judgment upon others (implying that no one is faultless and that, therefore, no one has such a right to pass judgment).".

No misspelling variants are generated for let him who is without sin cast the first stone 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: An allusion to an utterance of Jesus in John 8:7, viz. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” 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 let him who is without sin cast the first stone, spelled L-E-T- -H-I-M- -W-H-O- -I-S- -W-I-T-H-O-U-T- -S-I-N- -C-A-S-T- -T-H-E- -F-I-R-S-T- -S-T-O-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.