belief

Other forms of belief

plural

beliefs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about belief

What does belief mean?

belief means "any cognitive content held as true". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in belief?

belief has 2 syllables: be-lief. The stress falls on "lief". In IPA it is /bɪˈlif/.

What is another word for belief?

Close synonyms include impression, feeling, notion, opinion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of belief?

The recorded antonyms are unbelief.

Is belief a common word?

belief is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with belief?

6 words rhyme with belief. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.