doo
/du/noun, interjection
doo is spelled D-O-O: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doo means “feces, particularly that of a dog” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doo is doos.
How many letters and syllables are in doo?
| Letters | 3: D-O-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.2 times per million words; the 12,578th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is doo?
Doo appears 4.2 times per million words in written English, the 12,578th 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 doo?
- UK /duː/
- US /du/
- Australia /dʉː/
Doo has one syllable (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-do-verb.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with doo?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as doo from its last stressed vowel (/u/):
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 doo
- doos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does doo mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
feces, particularly that of a dog.
- 2
A snowmobile.
interjection
- 1
Used as a scat word in singing.
noun
- 1
UKInitialism of driver-only operation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does doo come from?
1950s, from child speak.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).