# DOI vs dour

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### DOI
*noun · IPA /diː əʊ aɪ/ · frequency rank #20,341*
Initialism of date of incident.

### dour
*adjective · IPA /ˈdʊə/ · frequency rank #49,880*
Stern, harsh and forbidding.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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