How to spell door

hear itdoor/doʊr/nounStarter

What it means: An entrance to a room or building.

In a sentence: The cat sat by the door waiting to go outside.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double o. Often misspelled as dor or doar.

Same family: doorway, indoors, outdoors, doorknob, doorbell. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “door” comes from Old English “duru” or “dor,” related to Old Norse “dyrr,” all meaning an entrance or gate. These ancient words go back to a very old root that also gave Latin its word “fores,” meaning outside or entrance to a house.

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