"likelihood for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the possibility or probability of something happening. For example, "The likelihood for rain over the weekend is high."
" Nothing good, in all likelihood, for women's sports.
To enhance that likelihood for myself, I avoided the next morning's lecture on the Rat Pack.
But the likelihood, for now, is that opening arguments could begin by early next week.
He has divided the e-tailers into three tiers, based on their likelihood for success.
Magnesium shows a likelihood for tensile twinning from a pre-existing crack on the basal plane.
Which embryo is preferable -- the one with a likelihood for colon cancer or the one with a propensity for diabetes?
That comment increases the likelihood for a one-half-point cut in the central bank's benchmark short-term interest rate.
But for now — and, in all likelihood, for many months — Kurdistan's bid for independence is on hold.
We consider a general Markov chain scheme and use partial likelihood for estimation.
The more guns with which our society equips itself, the greater the likelihood for accidents or violent acts involving firearms.
So be it, as there is little likelihood for constitutional reform of that.
