dozen: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 15 letter points · starts with D · ends with N
Meaning of dozen
noun
A set of twelve.
Example: Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
Example: There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
The number twelve.
Listed forms: dozens, doz.
Source: Wiktionary — dozen.
noun
- derogatory
A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.
Listed forms: dozens, doz.
Source: Wiktionary — dozen.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for dozen.
adjective
being one more than eleven
- twelve
- 12
- xii
noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
- twelve
- 12
- XII
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is dozen in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of dozen
D(2) + O(1) + Z(10) + E(1) + N(1) = 15 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of dozen
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from dozen
22 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in dozen. Showing up to 24, longest first.