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doina

noun

doina is spelled D-O-I-N-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doina means “A kind of Romanian folk song, often of lament, which has also been adopted into klezmer (Ashkenazi Jewish) music” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doina is doinas.

How many letters and syllables are in doina?

Letters5: D-O-I-N-A
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 111,684th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 doina?

Doina appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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).

What rhymes with doina?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as doina.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: danio.

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 doina

  • doinas plural
  • doyna
  • doyne

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

What does doina mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A kind of Romanian folk song, often of lament, which has also been adopted into klezmer (Ashkenazi Jewish) music.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:doina.

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

Where does doina come from?

Borrowed from Romanian doină.

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

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