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doe

/doʊ/noun, adverb

doe is spelled D-O-E: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doe means “A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doe is does.

How many letters and syllables are in doe?

Letters3: D-O-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 common is doe?

Doe appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 doe?

  • UK /dəʊ/
  • US /doʊ/

Doe has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-doe.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with doe

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

do vs doe0 B

Sounds like: d'oh, doh, dough (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: do.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with doe?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as doe from its last stressed vowel (/oʊ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ode, deo.

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 doe

  • does plural

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

What does doe mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).

  2. 2

    A female fallow deer.

  3. 3

    A female rabbit or hare.

  4. 4

    A female squirrel.

  5. 5

    A female kangaroo.

noun

as DOE
  1. 1

    Initialism of Design Of Experiments.

verb

as DOE
  1. 1

    Initialism of depends on experience.

adverb

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of though.

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

Doe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbiche (female deer), daine (female fallow deer), chevrette (female roe deer), lapine (female rabbit), hase (female hare)
GermanHirschkuh, Hinde, Hindin (female deer), Damhirschkuh (female fallow deer), Ricke, Rehgeiß (female roe deer)
Portuguesecorça (female deer), coelha (female rabbit), lebre (female hare)
Spanishcierva (female deer), coneja (female rabbit), ardilla (female squirrel)

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 doe come from?

From Middle English do (“(female) fallow deer”), from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).

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

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