doc
[ˈd̪ok]
The verdict
“doc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,645) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,645
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que ejerce la Medicina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-doc · doc · Spanish
doc · rank #8,645 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,645
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH disfrute
Nearest frequency peer: disfrute (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “doc”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- destruye
destruye
91,359 corpus weight
- dirigen
dirigen
91,358 corpus weight
- disfrute
disfrute
91,357 corpus weight
- doc
doc
91,356 corpus weight
- dominar
dominar
91,355 corpus weight
- don't
don't
91,354 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “doc” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doc |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪ok] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “doc”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for doc is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dos", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈd̪ok]. Frequency #8,645 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Persona que ejerce la Medicina.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for doc in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dos", "don", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is doc, spelled D-O-C.
Definition
- 1Persona que ejerce la Medicina.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¡La gallada de Temuco no la puede creer! Uno de los más destacados cardiólogo que ha pisado esas tierras, el doc Mario Santibañez, fue encontrado sin vida en su departamento tras haber inhalado monóxido de carbono proveniente de su propio computador.
Synonyms
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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