doorway
/ˈdɔɹweɪ/noun
doorway is spelled D-O-O-R-W-A-Y: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doorway means “The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doorway is doorways.
How many letters and syllables are in doorway?
| Letters | 7: D-O-O-R-W-A-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st 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 doorway?
Doorway appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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 doorway?
- US /ˈdɔɹweɪ/
- UK /ˈdɔːweɪ/
- /ˈdo(ː)ɹweɪ/
Doorway has 2 syllables (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-doorway.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with doorway?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as doorway from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹweɪ/):
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 doorway
- doorways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does doorway mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
I stood by the doorway to watch her go.
- 2
An opening or passage in general.
Soon after dawn, he came to the doorway of my tent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Doorway in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense passage of a door:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | embrasure de la porte |
| German | Türöffnung |
| Portuguese | vão da porta, porta |
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 doorway come from?
From door + way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).