sufficient-unto-the-day-is-the-evil-thereof

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The English entry for sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof is 43 letters long, classified as aproverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /səˈfɪʃ(ə)nt ˌʌntʊ ðə ˈdeɪ ɪz ðiː ˈiːvɪl ðɛəˌɹɒv/. 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: "There is no need to worry about the future; the present provides enough to worry about.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof 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: From Matthew 6:34 in the King James Version of the Bible (spelling modernized): “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself: sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” The phrase is a translation … 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 sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, spelled S-U-F-F-I-C-I-E-N-T- -U-N-T-O- -T-H-E- -D-A-Y- -I-S- -T-H-E- -E-V-I-L- -T-H-E-R-E-O-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.