dof
"dof" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dof” is an uncommon English word, ranked #56,076 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #56,076
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stupid; thick.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dof |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dof” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dof is 3 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #56,076 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Stupid; thick.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dof, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Afrikaans dof. Doublet of daff, deaf, and dowf. The correct English form is dof, spelled D-O-F.
Definition
- 1Stupid; thick.
Etymology
From Afrikaans dof. Doublet of daff, deaf, and dowf.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dof”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.