# dusk

> English word · Adjective · IPA /dʌsk/ · frequency rank #16,221

## Definitions
1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

## Etymology
From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).

## Easily confused with
- **duty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dusk-vs-duty)
- **dust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dusk-vs-dust)
- **dusty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dusk-vs-dusty)
- **dusky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dusk-vs-dusky)
- **DS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ds-vs-dusk)
- **due** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/due-vs-dusk)
- **Des** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/des-vs-dusk)
- **duo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/duo-vs-dusk)
- **dug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dug-vs-dusk)
- **das** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/das-vs-dusk)
- **dis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dis-vs-dusk)
- **DOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dos-vs-dusk)
- **dub** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dub-vs-dusk)
- **duh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/duh-vs-dusk)
- **DJs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/djs-vs-dusk)
- **DUI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dui-vs-dusk)
- **dun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dun-vs-dusk)
- **DHS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dhs-vs-dusk)
- **dum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dum-vs-dusk)
- **dak** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dak-vs-dusk)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ddusk`, `dsuk`, `duks`, `duskk`, `dussk`, `udsk`

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