# DOJ vs dour

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### DOJ
*name · frequency rank #19,818*
Initialism of United States Department of Justice; also DoJ.

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doj-vs-dour