dotes
/dəʊts/
"dotes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dotes” is uncommon English (frequency #91,438 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,438
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of dote
Corpus desk
Index EN-dotes · dotes · English
dotes · rank #91,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,438
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doorframe
Nearest frequency peer: doorframe (-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 “dotes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Doctorow
Doctorow
8,569 corpus weight
- Domhnall
Domhnall
8,566 corpus weight
- doorframe
doorframe
8,564 corpus weight
- dotes
dotes
8,563 corpus weight
- doubler
doubler
8,562 corpus weight
- doujinshi
doujinshi
8,561 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dotes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dotes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dəʊts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dotes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dotes is uncommon English at frequency #91,438 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dəʊts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of dote".
No misspelling variants are generated for dotes in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is dotes, spelled D-O-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural 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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