dot
/dɑt/noun
dot is spelled D-O-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Dot, the name). As a noun, dot means “A small, round spot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dot is dots.
How many letters and syllables are in dot?
| Letters | 3: D-O-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dot?
Dot appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Dot, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dot?
- UK /dɒt/
- US /dɑt/
- Australia /dɔt/
Dot 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-dot.ogg, En-au-dot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dot?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dot from its last stressed vowel (/ɑt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tod.
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 dot
- dots plural
- d.o.t.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dot mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small, round spot.
a dot of colour
- 2
A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]
- 3
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- 4
A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- 5
In musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- 6
One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- 7
obsoleteA lump or clot.
- 8
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
a dot of a child
noun
- 1
Initialism of disodium octaborate tetrahydrate.
- 2
Initialism of damage over time.
- 3
A weapon or ability that deals damage over time as opposed to or in addition to direct damage.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of DOT.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dot come from?
From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).