door
/do(ː)ɹ/
"door" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“door” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #869) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #869
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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 tha...
Corpus desk
Index EN-door · door · English
door · rank #869 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #869
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH currently
Nearest frequency peer: currently (-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 neighbourhood for “door”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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council
99,135 corpus weight
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cover
99,134 corpus weight
- currently
currently
99,133 corpus weight
- door
door
99,132 corpus weight
- election
election
99,131 corpus weight
- European
European
99,130 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “door” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | door |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /do(ː)ɹ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “door” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for door is neighbouring look-alikes ("Dr", "duo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /do(ː)ɹ/. Frequency #869 among 3,470 “D” headwords. 9 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for door, with forms such as "ddoor", "doorr", and "doro". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Dr", "duo", "dot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterlan… The correct English form is door, spelled D-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1A 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.
- 2A building with a door, especially a house.
- 3Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- 4An entry point.
- 5A means of approach or access.
- 6A possibility.
- 7A barrier.
- 8A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
- 9The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how door appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I knocked on the vice president's door.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Etymology
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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish, Norn, and Norwegian dør (“door”), Faroese and Icelandic dyr (“door”), Asturian, Aragonese, and Spanish fuera (“outside”), Catalan, Leonese, and Portuguese fora (“outside”), French hors (“outside”), Galician fóra (“outside”), Italian fuori (“outside”), Mirandese fuora (“outside”), Latin foris and foras (“outside”), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë (“door”), Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge, “door”), Northern Kurdish derî (“door”), Persian در (dar, “door”), Belarusian дзве́ры (dzvjéry, “door”), Bulgarian две́ри (dvéri, “royal doors”), Czech dveře (“door”), Latvian durvis (“door”), Lithuanian durys (“door”), Macedonian двер (dver, “door”), Polish drzwi (“door”), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Serbo-Croatian dvȇri (“door”), dvar (“door”), Ukrainian две́рі (dvéri, “door”), Hindi द्वार (dvār, “door”), Armenian դուռ (duṙ, “door”), Irish doras (“door”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra, “door”). Despite similarities in spelling, not cognate with Dutch door, which is instead cognate with English through.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoor
- doorr
- doro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of door - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- "door" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Dr". View pair
- 3 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #869 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.