front door

noun

"front-door" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“front door” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The door at the main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street.

Corpus desk

Index EN-front-door · front door · English

front door · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for front door
PropertyValue
Headwordfront door
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “front door” in English

front doorranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

front door is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for front door in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is front door, spelled F-R-O-N-T- -D-O-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    The door at the main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street.
  2. 2
    The entire main entrance to a building or house.
  3. 3
    The habitual or designated main entrance to a room that has more than one door.
  4. 4
    The normal portal page to a website.
  5. 5
    The path of a pitch which starts inside and then slides over the plate.
  6. 6
    vagina or penis, as a means of sexual intercourse, contrasted with the anus or "back door"

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how front door appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. You'll find a light switch inside the front door on the left.
  2. Calpurnia appeared in the front door and yelled, “Lemonade time! You all get in outa that hot sun ‘fore you fry alive!” Lemonade in the middle of the morning was a summertime ritual. Calpurnia set a pitcher and three glasses on the porch, then went about her business. Being out of Jem’s good graces did not worry me especially. Lemonade would restore his g…

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "front door"?
"front door" is spelled F-R-O-N-T- -D-O-O-R.
What does "front door" mean?
As a noun, "front door" means: The door at the main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street.
What language does "front door" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list