dodie
/ˈdoʊdi/
"dodie" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dodie” is uncommon English (frequency #86,218 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,218
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A baby's pacifier or soother.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dodie · dodie · English
dodie · rank #86,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,218
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doest
Nearest frequency peer: doest (+1 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 “dodie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- disconsolate
disconsolate
13,787 corpus weight
- disputation
disputation
13,785 corpus weight
- dodie
dodie
13,783 corpus weight
- doest
doest
13,782 corpus weight
- doof
doof
13,780 corpus weight
- Dorris
Dorris
13,779 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dodie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dodie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdoʊdi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dodie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dodie is uncommon English at frequency #86,218 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdoʊdi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A baby's pacifier or soother.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dodie, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is dodie, spelled D-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1A baby's pacifier or soother.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Don't you have a dodie for her?” "Dodie?" "Ah..." Blaine hesitated. "Pacifier." "Oh! It's one of those things I haven't gotten yet. She doesn't seem to look for one."
"Dodie trees" are not often associated with holy wells; in fact, the young child finishing with nursing or teething can be asked to give the dodie (teether or pacifier) to the fairies by letting family members hang it on a tree.
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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