dos
[dos]
The verdict
“dos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,542) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,542
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Kardinalzahl zwischen eins und drei; zwei
Corpus desk
Index DE-dos · dos · German
dos · rank #14,542 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,542
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH direct
Nearest frequency peer: direct (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „dos“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „dos“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [dos] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dos“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dos is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "Ds", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [dos]. Frequency #14,542 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "die Kardinalzahl zwischen eins und drei; zwei".
No misspelling variants are generated for dos in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "Ds", "DW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is dos, spelled D-O-S.
Definition
- 1die Kardinalzahl zwischen eins und drei; zwei
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ahir al vespre em vaig beure dos vasos d’aigua.
Ahir al vespre em vaig beure dues copes de cava.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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