without a doubt
"without-a-doubt" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“without a doubt” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a prep_phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - certainly; doubtlessly; unquestionably; indisputably; doubtless; surely; no doubt; without any doubt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | without a doubt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Prep_phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “without a doubt” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for without a doubt is 15 letters long, classified as a prep_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: "certainly; doubtlessly; unquestionably; indisputably; doubtless; surely; no doubt; without any doubt.".
without a doubt has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is without a doubt, spelled W-I-T-H-O-U-T- -A- -D-O-U-B-T.
Definition
- 1certainly; doubtlessly; unquestionably; indisputably; doubtless; surely; no doubt; without any doubt.
This word in other languages
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 “without a doubt”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-T-H-O-U-T- -A- -D-O-U-B-T - 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.