doorway
/ˈdɔɹweɪ/
"doorway" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doorway” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,745
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doorway · doorway · English
doorway · rank #14,745 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,745
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH diversion
Nearest frequency peer: diversion (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “doorway”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- discriminate
discriminate
85,259 corpus weight
- diversion
diversion
85,257 corpus weight
- doorway
doorway
85,256 corpus weight
- DP
DP
85,255 corpus weight
- drilled
drilled
85,254 corpus weight
- dumpster
dumpster
85,253 corpus weight
What this shows “doorway” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | doorway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɔɹweɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “doorway”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around doorway (IPA /ˈdɔɹweɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,745 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for doorway, with forms such as "ddoorway", "doorawy", and "doorrway". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "doorman", "doormat", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From door + way. The correct English form is doorway, spelled D-O-O-R-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
- 2An opening or passage in general.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doorway appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A re-arrangement of the seating in relation to doorway positions gives an even distribution of seated passengers, no change has been made in the number or size of the doorways.
How fares it with the happy dead? For here the man is more and more; But he forgets the days before God shut the doorways of his head [i.e. the sutures of the skull].
Etymology
From door + way.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoorway
- doorawy
- doorrway
- doorwayy
- doorwway
- doorwya
- doowray
- doroway
- dorway
- odorway
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doorway - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doorway", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).