dost
[dost]
The verdict
“dost” is an uncommon German word, ranked #60,481 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,481
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sehr nahestehender Mensch, für den man freundschaftliche und kameradschaftliche Gefühle entwickelt hat; Freund
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dost |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dost] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dost” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dost is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dost]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,481 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sehr nahestehender Mensch, für den man freundschaftliche und kameradschaftliche Gefühle entwickelt hat; Freund".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dost, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is dost, spelled D-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1sehr nahestehender Mensch, für den man freundschaftliche und kameradschaftliche Gefühle entwickelt hat; Freund
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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Using “dost”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-O-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [dost] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.