# dock

> English word · Noun · IPA /dɒk/ · frequency rank #7,218

## Definitions
1. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
2. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.

## Etymology
From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).

## Easily confused with
- **dog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dog)
- **don** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-don)
- **dot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dot)
- **doe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-doe)
- **dom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dom)
- **DOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dos)
- **dow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dow)
- **doo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-doo)
- **DOD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dod)
- **DOJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-doj)
- **DOI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-doi)
- **DRC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-drc)
- **doh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-doh)
- **dol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dol)
- **duc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-duc)
- **dor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dor)
- **dox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-dox)
- **down** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-down)
- **does** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-does)
- **done** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dock-vs-done)

## Common misspellings (6)
`dcok`, `ddock`, `docck`, `dockk`, `dokc`, `odck`

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