doctrine
doc·trine/ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/noun
doctrine is spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E: 8 letters and 2 syllables (doc·trine). It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doctrine means “A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doctrine is doctrines.
How many letters and syllables are in doctrine?
| Letters | 8: D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: doc·trine |
| In writing | 9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 doctrine?
Doctrine appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th 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 doctrine?
- UK /ˈdɒk.tɹɪn/
- US /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/
- Australia /ˈdɔk.tɹɪn/
Doctrine has 2 syllables, split doc·trine in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-doctrine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with doctrine?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as doctrine (/ɑktɹɪn/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: centroid.
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 doctrine
- doctrines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does doctrine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
The Incarnation is a basic doctrine of Christianity.
- 2
The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
What is the understanding of marriage and family in orthodox Marxist doctrine?
- 3
A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.
the Monroe Doctrine the Brezhnev Doctrine the Negroponte Doctrine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Doctrine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 doctrine come from?
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin doctrina (“teaching, instruction, learning, knowledge”), from doctor (“a teacher”), from docere (“to teach”); see doctor.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).