Dockery
"dockery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dockery” is uncommon English (frequency #73,136 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,136
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dockery · Dockery · English
Dockery · rank #73,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,136
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dixieland
Nearest frequency peer: Dixieland (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Dockery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dirichlet
Dirichlet
26,870 corpus weight
- divvy
divvy
26,868 corpus weight
- Dixieland
Dixieland
26,867 corpus weight
- Dockery
Dockery
26,865 corpus weight
- Dorinda
Dorinda
26,863 corpus weight
- DTP
DTP
26,861 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dockery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dockery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dockery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dockery is uncommon English at frequency #73,136 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dockery, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Two main origins: * Variant of Dockray, an English habitational surname. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochraidh, a variant of Ó Dochartaigh, from which Doherty. The correct English form is Dockery, spelled D-O-C-K-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A placename, from the surname:
- 3A placename, from the surname:
Etymology
Two main origins: * Variant of Dockray, an English habitational surname. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dochraidh, a variant of Ó Dochartaigh, from which Doherty.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).