daughter
daugh·ter/ˈdɔ.tɚ/noun
daughter is spelled D-A-U-G-H-T-E-R, 2 syllables: daugh·ter. The wrong spelling people search most is daugther: about 300 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Daughter is a noun meaning “One’s female offspring”. The plural of daughter is daughters; Wiktionary also lists daughtren (archaic).
How many letters and syllables are in daughter?
| Letters | 8: D-A-U-G-H-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: daugh·ter |
| In writing | 117 times per million words; the 904th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, daugther, about 300 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell daughter?
Daughter is spelled D-A-U-G-H-T-E-R. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for daughter in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is daughter?
Daughter appears 117 times per million words in written English, the 904th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce daughter?
- UK /ˈdɔːtə/
- British /ˈdoːtə/
- US /ˈdɔ.tɚ/
Daughter has 2 syllables, split daugh·ter in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-daughter.ogg, En-us-daughter.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with daughter?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as daughter from its last stressed vowel (/ɔtəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of daughter
- daughters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does daughter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One’s female offspring.
I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter.
- 2
A female descendant.
- 3
A daughter language.
- 4
A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
- 5
A descendant.
- 6
A female character of a creator.
- 7
derogatoryinformalA familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate daughter?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of daughter: da., daur..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Daughter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense female offspring:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does daughter come from?
From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).