Douro
"douro" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Douro” is uncommon English (frequency #72,254 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,254
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A river in northern Spain and Portugal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-douro · Douro · English
Douro · rank #72,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,254
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dote
Nearest frequency peer: dote (-2 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 “Douro”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dominantly
dominantly
27,752 corpus weight
- domme
domme
27,751 corpus weight
- dote
dote
27,749 corpus weight
- Douro
Douro
27,747 corpus weight
- dungarees
dungarees
27,745 corpus weight
- Duong
Duong
27,744 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Douro” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Douro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Douro” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Douro is uncommon English at frequency #72,254 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A river in northern Spain and Portugal.".
Douro has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese Douro, from Old Galician-Portuguese Doiro, from Latin Durius, possibly from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water”). The correct English form is Douro, spelled D-O-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1A river in northern Spain and Portugal.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Douro, from Old Galician-Portuguese Doiro, from Latin Durius, possibly from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water”).
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).