dozen
/ˈdʌzən/noun
dozen is spelled D-O-Z-E-N: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dozen means “A set of twelve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dozen is dozens.
How many letters and syllables are in dozen?
| Letters | 5: D-O-Z-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 dozen?
Dozen appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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 dozen?
- US /ˈdʌzən/
- Australia /ˈdɐzən/
Dozen 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: En-us-dozen.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dozen?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dozen (/ʌzən/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: zoned, zendo.
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 dozen
- dozens plural
- doz
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dozen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A set of twelve.
Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
- 2
A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
- 3
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- 4
The number twelve.
- 5
derogatoryA member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate dozen?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of dozen: doz, dz.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dozen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | douzaine , dizaines |
| German | Dutzend , Dutzende |
| Portuguese | dúzia , dezena, centena |
| Spanish | docena , decenas |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dozen come from?
From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).