Which to use
“door” and “doors” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,962
- “door” frequency rank
- #39,293
- “doors” frequency rank
- 65255
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | door | doors |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Tür | Plural des Substantivs door |
Where the eye mixes door and doors
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. door runs 4 letters (CVVC) against doors's 5 (CVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between door and doors
A purely visual mix-up. door ([dɔː]) and doors ([dɔːʳz]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “door” sits inside “doors”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65255, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
door is recorded at frequency rank #25,962, classified as anoun, pronounced [dɔː]. doors is at rank #39,293, tagged as anoun, pronounced [dɔːʳz].
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 65255, this pair ranks #613,200 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of door vs doors
Shared letters: dor. Private to "door": -. Private to "doors": s.
"door" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "doors" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "door" for "doors" ever safe?
Frequency check: "door" vs "doors" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "door" and "doors" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "door" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "doors" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #613,200 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "door" and "doors" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Docks vs doors". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #613,200 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.