dohvsdoxTell them apart

Which to use

“doh” and “dox” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#31,141
“doh” frequency rank
#49,882
“dox” frequency rank
81023
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature doh dox
Definition A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale. plural of doc

Letter map: doh vs dox

Shared letters muted; letters that set doh and dox apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. doh and dox follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

3 ch
doh
3 ch
dox

Pair insight - doh / dox

doh and dox are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by a single letter - h in “doh” becomes x in “dox”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81023, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

doh is recorded at frequency rank #31,141, classified as anoun, pronounced /doʊ/. dox is at rank #49,882, tagged as anoun.

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 81023, this pair ranks #18,597 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of doh vs dox

Shared letters: do. Private to "doh": h. Private to "dox": x.

"doh" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "dox" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "doh" and "dox" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by a single letter - h in “doh” becomes x in “dox”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary English text, does "doh" or "dox" show up more?
"doh" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,141 in our English list, against #49,882 for "dox". 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 "doh" and "dox". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "doh" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dox" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #18,597 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "doh" and "dox" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dour vs dox". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #18,597 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list