Donohoe
"donohoe" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Donohoe” is an uncommon English word, ranked #95,914 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #95,914
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Donohoe |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Donohoe” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Donohoe is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #95,914 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.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Donohoe in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From O'Donohue. The correct English form is Donohoe, spelled D-O-N-O-H-O-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
From O'Donohue.
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 “Donohoe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-N-O-H-O-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.