Doheny
"doheny" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Doheny” is uncommon English (frequency #90,376 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,376
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doheny · Doheny · English
Doheny · rank #90,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,376
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Diyala
Nearest frequency peer: Diyala (-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 “Doheny”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- distil
distil
9,630 corpus weight
- distrusting
distrusting
9,629 corpus weight
- Diyala
Diyala
9,627 corpus weight
- Doheny
Doheny
9,625 corpus weight
- doublespeak
doublespeak
9,622 corpus weight
- downrange
downrange
9,621 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Doheny” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Doheny |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Doheny” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Doheny is uncommon English at frequency #90,376 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Irish.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Doheny in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhconna (“descendant of Dubhconna”), a personal name composed by the elements dubh (“black”) + Conna, a hypocoristic form of Colmán. The correct English form is Doheny, spelled D-O-H-E-N-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhconna (“descendant of Dubhconna”), a personal name composed by the elements dubh (“black”) + Conna, a hypocoristic form of Colmán.
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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