down vs dox, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“down” is an adverb and “dox” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#137
“down” frequency rank: #49,882
“dox” frequency rank: 50019
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	down	dox
Definition	From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.	plural of doc

Letter map: down vs dox

Shared letters muted; letters that set down and dox apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

down

3 ch

dox

Role in the sentence - down and dox

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: down is anadverb and doxanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50019, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

down is recorded at frequency rank #137, classified as anadv, pronounced /daʊn/. dox is at rank #49,882, tagged as anoun.

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 50019, this pair ranks #178,118 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of down vs dox

Shared letters: do. Private to "down": nw. Private to "dox": x.

"down" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "dox" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

down ← ddown · donw · downn · dowwn · dwon · odwn

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "down" and "dox" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "down" is an adverb and "dox" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "down" vs "dox" - which ranks higher?

"down" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #137 in our English list, against #49,882 for "dox". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "down" and "dox". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "down" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "dox" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #178,118 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"down" and "dox" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dour vs dox". 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 #178,118 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.