Which to use
“door” is a noun and “doze” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #869
- “door” frequency rank
- #44,749
- “doze” frequency rank
- 45618
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | door | doze |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 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 ensures it cannot be opened without a key. | To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. |
Where the eye mixes door and doze
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. door (CVVC) and doze (CVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between door and doze
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: door is /do(ː)ɹ/ while doze is /doʊz/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45618, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
door is recorded at frequency rank #869, classified as anoun, pronounced /do(ː)ɹ/. doze is at rank #44,749, tagged as averb, pronounced /doʊz/.
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 45618, this pair ranks #219,543 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of door vs doze
Shared letters: do. Private to "door": r. Private to "doze": ez.
"door" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "doze" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "door" for "doze" ever safe?
In ordinary English text, does "door" or "doze" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "door" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "doze" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #219,543 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "door" and "doze" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dox vs doze". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #219,543 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.