do the dishes
"do-the-dishes" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“do the dishes” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons).
Corpus desk
Index EN-do-the-dishes · do the dishes · English
do the dishes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | do the dishes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “do the dishes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
do the dishes is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons).".
do the dishes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is do the dishes, spelled D-O- -T-H-E- -D-I-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1To wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how do the dishes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I make my children do the dishes if they are impolite during dinner.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.