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doris

/ˈdɔɹɪs/noun

doris is spelled D-O-R-I-S: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doris means “A sea slug” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in doris?

Letters5: D-O-R-I-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 doris?

Doris appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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 doris?

  • UK /ˈdɒɹɪs/
  • US /ˈdɔɹɪs/
  • /ˈdɑɹɪs/

Doris 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-Doris.wav, En-au-Doris.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with doris?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as doris from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹɪs/):

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).

What does doris mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A sea slug.

noun

as Doris
  1. 1

    UKslangOne's girlfriend, wife or significant other.

  2. 2

    UKslangA woman, especially when older or unattractive.

adjective

as Doris
  1. 1

    slanggay

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

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