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door

/do(ː)ɹ/noun, verb

door is spelled D-O-O-R: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 120 times per million words in written English, the 873rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, door means “A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of door is doors.

How many letters and syllables are in door?

Letters4: D-O-O-R
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing120 times per million words; the 873rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Same letters

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is door?

Door appears 120 times per million words in written English, the 873rd 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 door?

  • /do(ː)ɹ/
  • /doə/
  • /ɖoɾ/

Door 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-door.ogg, En-uk-door.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with door

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

door vs dough0 B

Sounds like: d'or (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with door?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: odor, rood, ordo.

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 door

  • doors plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • dooring participle, present
  • doored participle, past

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

What does door mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.

    bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door

  2. 2

    A building with a door, especially a house.

    His house is three doors down.

  3. 3

    Any flap, etc., that opens like a door.

    cupboard door

  4. 4

    An entry point.

  5. 5

    A means of approach or access.

    Learning is the door to wisdom.

  6. 6

    A possibility.

    to leave the door open

  7. 7

    A barrier.

    Keep a door on your anger.

  8. 8

    datedA software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

verb

  1. 1

    To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

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

Door in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchporte, portière, huis (portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle), emportiérer (to cause a collision by opening the door of a…)
GermanTür, Türen, Türe, Tüür (portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle)
Portugueseporta (portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle)
Spanishpuerta, postigo (portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does door come from?

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

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

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