doted
/ˈdəʊtɪd/
"doted" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doted” is uncommon English (frequency #77,613 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,613
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dote
Corpus desk
Index EN-doted · doted · English
doted · rank #77,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,613
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doy
Nearest frequency peer: doy (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “doted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- DLF
DLF
22,392 corpus weight
- Dorito
Dorito
22,390 corpus weight
- doted
doted
22,388 corpus weight
- doy
doy
22,387 corpus weight
- driveshaft
driveshaft
22,382 corpus weight
- dually
dually
22,381 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdəʊtɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doted is uncommon English at frequency #77,613 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈdəʊtɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of dote".
Zero misspellings are on record for doted in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is doted, spelled D-O-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dote
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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