this too shall pass

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for this too shall pass is 19 letters long, classified as a proverb. 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: "Nothing, good or bad, lasts forever; all circumstances are temporary.".

No misspelling variants are generated for this too shall pass 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: Calque of Classical Persian اِین نِیز بُگْذَرَد (īn nīz bugzarad). Compare Latin sic transit gloria mundi. 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 this too shall pass, spelled T-H-I-S- -T-O-O- -S-H-A-L-L- -P-A-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.