# dozen

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈdʌzən/ · frequency rank #3,939

## Definitions
1. A set of twelve.
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.
3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
4. The number twelve.

## Etymology
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”).

## Easily confused with
- **dozens** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dozen-vs-dozens)
- **dozing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dozen-vs-dozing)
- **don** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/don-vs-dozen)
- **den** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/den-vs-dozen)
- **doe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doe-vs-dozen)
- **down** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/down-vs-dozen)
- **does** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/does-vs-dozen)
- **done** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/done-vs-dozen)
- **dose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dose-vs-dozen)
- **dome** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dome-vs-dozen)
- **dope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dope-vs-dozen)
- **dove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dove-vs-dozen)
- **dole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dole-vs-dozen)
- **deen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deen-vs-dozen)
- **doge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doge-vs-dozen)
- **daze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/daze-vs-dozen)
- **doer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doer-vs-dozen)
- **doze** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doze-vs-dozen)
- **doon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/doon-vs-dozen)
- **Dore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dore-vs-dozen)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ddozen`, `doezn`, `dozenn`, `dozne`, `dozzen`, `dzoen`, `odzen`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/dozen