# doth vs dour

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### doth
*verb · IPA /dʌθ/ · frequency rank #24,145*
third-person singular simple present indicative of do

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doth-vs-dour