doctores

/[d̪okˈt̪oɾes]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,499

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

doctores is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de doctor. Pronounced [d̪okˈt̪oɾes]. It ranks #5,499 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Dolores and doctor.

Key facts for doctores
PropertyValue
Headworddoctores
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪okˈt̪oɾes]
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,499
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of doctores in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for doctores is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪okˈt̪oɾes]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,499 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de doctor.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for doctores, with forms such as "dcotores", "ddoctores", and "docctores". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Dolores", "doctor", "doctora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is doctores, spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de doctor.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcotores,ddoctores,docctores,docotres,doctoers,doctoress,doctorres,doctorse,doctroes,docttores,dotcores,odctores

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doctores

Misspelling Variants of "doctores"

dcotores8ddoctores9docctores9docotres8doctoers8doctoress9doctorres9doctorse8
Misspelling Variants of "doctores"

Frequency rank: #5,499 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doctores"?
"doctores" is spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪okˈt̪oɾes].
What does "doctores" mean?
As a noun, "doctores" means: Forma del plural de doctor.
What words are commonly confused with "doctores"?
"doctores" is commonly confused with "Dolores", "doctor", "doctora". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doctores"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doctores" is [d̪okˈt̪oɾes]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doctores" come from?
"doctores" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.