DOJ
"doj" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“DOJ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,818) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,818
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of United States Department of Justice; also DoJ.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doj · DOJ · English
DOJ · rank #19,818 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,818
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doctrines
Nearest frequency peer: doctrines (-1 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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “DOJ”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- discrepancy
discrepancy
80,186 corpus weight
- dishwasher
dishwasher
80,185 corpus weight
- doctrines
doctrines
80,184 corpus weight
- DOJ
DOJ
80,183 corpus weight
- Donaldson
Donaldson
80,182 corpus weight
- doodle
doodle
80,181 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “DOJ” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DOJ |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “DOJ”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DOJ is neighbouring look-alikes ("Dr", "DS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #19,818 among 3,470 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
DOJ doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Dr", "DS", "DT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is DOJ, spelled D-O-J.
Definition
- 1Initialism of United States Department of Justice; also DoJ.
- 2Initialism of Department of Justice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DOJ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
DOJ is asking for $64,618 per day, per violation of the CWA and $55,808 per day or $2,232 per barrel of oil or unit of hazardous substance, per violation of the CWA – but it was not immediately clear from the suit how many days the DOJ considered the violation to be applicable.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).