# does vs Dover

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### does
*verb · IPA /dəz/ · frequency rank #177*
third-person singular simple present indicative of do

### Dover
*name · IPA /ˈdəʊ.və/ · frequency rank #13,502*
A town, civil parish (with a town council) and major port in Kent, England, the closest point to France (OS grid ref TR3141).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/does-vs-dover