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doab

/ˈdoʊ.ɑːb/noun

doab is spelled D-O-A-B: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doab means “A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganges and the Yamuna” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doab is doabs.

How many letters and syllables are in doab?

Letters4: D-O-A-B
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is doab?

Doab appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 doab?

  • /ˈdoʊ.ɑːb/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with doab?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as doab.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: abdo.

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 doab

  • doabs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does doab mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaA tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganges and the Yamuna

    the doab between the Ganges and the Yamuna

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does doab come from?

Borrowed from Persian دوآب (do-âb) and Hindi दोआब (doāb), properly meaning "two waters".

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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