Donoghue
"donoghue" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Donoghue” is an uncommon English word, ranked #69,798 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #69,798
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Irish.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Donoghue |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Donoghue” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Donoghue is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #69,798 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A surname from Irish.".
Donoghue has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Irish Ó Donnchadha (“descendant of Duncan”). The correct English form is Donoghue, spelled D-O-N-O-G-H-U-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Irish.
Etymology
From Irish Ó Donnchadha (“descendant of Duncan”).
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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Using “Donoghue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-N-O-G-H-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.