Door or dough?
door is a noun meaning “A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a…”; dough is a noun meaning “A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such…”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) door is about 17 times as common as dough.
What is the difference between door and dough?
| door | dough | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, verb |
| Meaning | A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a… A building with a door, especially a house To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian | A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked To make into dough |
| Example | bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door | Pizza dough is very stretchy |
| Forms | doors | doughs |
| Pronunciation | /do(ː)ɹ/ /doə/ /ɖoɾ/ | /dəʊ/ /doʊ/ [ˈdö̞ʷʊ̯ʷ] |
| In writing | 120 times per million words | 7.2 times per million words |
Sources: door and dough in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of door and dough
door
- 1
A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that…
bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door
- 2
To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian
- 3
A building with a door, especially a house
His house is three doors down
- 4
Any flap, etc., that opens like a door
cupboard door
- 5
An entry point
- 6
A means of approach or access
Learning is the door to wisdom
- 7
A possibility
to leave the door open
- 8
A barrier
Keep a door on your anger
dough
- 1
A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked
Pizza dough is very stretchy
- 2
To make into dough
The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water
- 3
slangMoney
His mortgage payments left him short on dough
- 4
USslangClipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”)
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, door or dough?
door appears 120 times per million words; dough 7.2 times per million words.
door 120 times per million wordsdough 7.2 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).