doit
/dɔɪt/
"doit" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doit” is uncommon English (frequency #76,726 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,726
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doit · doit · English
doit · rank #76,726 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,726
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dobrev
Nearest frequency peer: Dobrev (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “doit”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- discolor
discolor
23,283 corpus weight
- Dobrev
Dobrev
23,277 corpus weight
- doit
doit
23,275 corpus weight
- Doulton
Doulton
23,272 corpus weight
- downtrend
downtrend
23,271 corpus weight
- DRL
DRL
23,269 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doit” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɔɪt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doit is uncommon English at frequency #76,726 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɔɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for doit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite. The correct English form is doit, spelled D-O-I-T.
Definition
- 1A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
- 2A small amount; a bit, a jot.
- 3In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
'"You got a lot of gold off Mr. Beauclerc," says Glascock. '"Not a doit more than I wanted," says he, laughing again. "And who, pray, had a better right—did not I murder him?"
[…] when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, they will lay out ten to ſee a dead Indian: […]
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.
This word in other languages
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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