faith

Other forms of faith

plural

faiths·

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 faith

What does faith mean?

faith means "a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in faith?

faith has 1 syllable: faith. In IPA it is /ˈfeɪθ/.

What is another word for faith?

Close synonyms include religion, religious belief, trust, religion, organized religion. 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.

Is faith a common word?

faith is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 faith?

1 word rhymes with faith. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.