diff --git a/sklearn/metrics/_ranking.py b/sklearn/metrics/_ranking.py
index 4b8202d60d53e..4243bccd23c9a 100644
--- a/sklearn/metrics/_ranking.py
+++ b/sklearn/metrics/_ranking.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 import warnings
 from functools import partial
-from numbers import Real
+from numbers import Real, Integral
 
 import numpy as np
 from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix, issparse
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from ..utils.multiclass import type_of_target
 from ..utils.extmath import stable_cumsum
 from ..utils.sparsefuncs import count_nonzero
-from ..utils._param_validation import validate_params, StrOptions
+from ..utils._param_validation import validate_params, StrOptions, Interval
 from ..exceptions import UndefinedMetricWarning
 from ..preprocessing import label_binarize
 from ..utils._encode import _encode, _unique
@@ -1445,6 +1445,16 @@ def _check_dcg_target_type(y_true):
         )
 
 
+@validate_params(
+    {
+        "y_true": ["array-like"],
+        "y_score": ["array-like"],
+        "k": [Interval(Integral, 1, None, closed="left"), None],
+        "log_base": [Interval(Real, 0.0, None, closed="neither")],
+        "sample_weight": ["array-like", None],
+        "ignore_ties": ["boolean"],
+    }
+)
 def dcg_score(
     y_true, y_score, *, k=None, log_base=2, sample_weight=None, ignore_ties=False
 ):
@@ -1461,11 +1471,11 @@ def dcg_score(
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    y_true : ndarray of shape (n_samples, n_labels)
+    y_true : array-like of shape (n_samples, n_labels)
         True targets of multilabel classification, or true scores of entities
         to be ranked.
 
-    y_score : ndarray of shape (n_samples, n_labels)
+    y_score : array-like of shape (n_samples, n_labels)
         Target scores, can either be probability estimates, confidence values,
         or non-thresholded measure of decisions (as returned by
         "decision_function" on some classifiers).
@@ -1478,7 +1488,7 @@ def dcg_score(
         Base of the logarithm used for the discount. A low value means a
         sharper discount (top results are more important).
 
-    sample_weight : ndarray of shape (n_samples,), default=None
+    sample_weight : array-like of shape (n_samples,), default=None
         Sample weights. If `None`, all samples are given the same weight.
 
     ignore_ties : bool, default=False
diff --git a/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py b/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py
index 836139b85b341..cbe75a57a3705 100644
--- a/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py
+++ b/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ def _check_function_param_validation(
     "sklearn.metrics.confusion_matrix",
     "sklearn.metrics.coverage_error",
     "sklearn.metrics.d2_pinball_score",
+    "sklearn.metrics.dcg_score",
     "sklearn.metrics.det_curve",
     "sklearn.metrics.f1_score",
     "sklearn.metrics.hamming_loss",