doesn't
/ˈdʌz.ənt/verb
doesn't is spelled D-O-E-S-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is doesnt: about 560 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Doesn't is a verb meaning “Does not (negative auxiliary)”.
How many letters and syllables are in doesn't?
| Letters | 6: D-O-E-S-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 339 times per million words; the 274th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, doesnt, about 560 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell doesn't?
Doesn't is spelled D-O-E-S-N-T. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for doesn't in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is doesn't?
Doesn't appears 339 times per million words in written English, the 274th 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 doesn't?
- UK /ˈdʌz.ənt/
- UK [ˈdʌz.n̩t]
- UK /ˈdʌn(t)/
Doesn't has 2 syllables (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: En-us-doesn't.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of doesn't
- does n't
- do's n't
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does doesn't mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
Does not (negative auxiliary)
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deran
- 2
archaicDost not
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).