doorsvsduosTell them apart

Quick tell: doors is a noun, duos is a num, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“doors” is a noun and “duos” is a num - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,293
“doors” frequency rank
#27,688
“duos” frequency rank
66981
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature doors duos
Definition Plural des Substantivs door Akkusativ Plural Maskulin der Kardinalzahl duo

Letter map: doors vs duos

Shared letters muted; letters that set doors and duos apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. doors runs 5 letters (CVVCC) against duos's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
doors
4 ch
duos

Part-of-speech tell for doors / duos

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: doors is anoun and duosanum. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66981, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

doors is recorded at frequency rank #39,293, classified as anoun, pronounced [dɔːʳz]. duos is at rank #27,688, tagged as anum, pronounced […].

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 66981, this pair ranks #555,212 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of doors vs duos

Shared letters: dos. Private to "doors": r. Private to "duos": u.

"doors" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "duos" · 4 letters · shape CVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • doors ← ddoors · doorrs · doorss · doosr · doros · dors · odors
  • duos ← dduos · dous · duoss · duso · udos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "doors" and "duos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "doors" is a noun and "duos" a num, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "doors" or "duos"?
"duos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,688 in our German list, against #39,293 for "doors". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "doors" and "duos". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "doors" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "duos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #555,212 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "doors" and "duos" 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 #555,212 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list