Which to use
“do” and “dog” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,819
- “do” frequency rank
- #11,950
- “dog” frequency rank
- 14769
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | do | dog |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première note de la gamme. | Chien (animal), pitou, animal de l'espèce Canis familiaris ou Canis lupus familiaris qui a été domestiqué il y a plusieurs milliers d'années et d’apparence variable du fait de la sélection humaine. |
Where the eye mixes do and dog
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses do with dog
A purely visual mix-up. do (\do\) and dog (\ˈdɔɡ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “do” sits inside “dog”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14769, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
do is recorded at frequency rank #2,819, classified as anoun, pronounced \do\. dog is at rank #11,950, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ˈdɔɡ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 14769, this pair ranks #395,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of do vs dog
Shared letters: do. Private to "do": -. Private to "dog": g.
"do" · 2 letters · shape CV · "dog" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "do" and "dog" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "do" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dog" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #395,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "do" and "dog" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "DCI vs dog". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #395,299 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.