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Sleight vs Speight - What's the difference?

sleight | speight |

As nouns the difference between sleight and speight

is that sleight is cunning; craft; artful practice while speight is (bird) a woodpecker.

sleight

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Cunning; craft; artful practice.
  • An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
  • Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

    • Derived terms

    * sleight of hand * sleighty English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    speight

    English

    Alternative forms

    *(l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (bird) a woodpecker.