doody
/duːdi/
"doody" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doody” is uncommon English (frequency #65,847 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,847
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excrement, poop.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doody · doody · English
doody · rank #65,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,847
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dongguan
Nearest frequency peer: Dongguan (-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 “doody”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dobbin
dobbin
34,158 corpus weight
- Docherty
Docherty
34,157 corpus weight
- Dongguan
Dongguan
34,156 corpus weight
- doody
doody
34,154 corpus weight
- drizzling
drizzling
34,151 corpus weight
- Drogheda
Drogheda
34,150 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doody” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doody |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /duːdi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doody” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doody is uncommon English at frequency #65,847 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /duːdi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Excrement, poop.".
Zero misspellings are on record for doody in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Respelling of duty (“act of urinating or defecating”), possibly by analogy with doodoo and/or because the sense is so far removed from the usual meaning of "duty." The correct English form is doody, spelled D-O-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Excrement, poop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doody appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Petra would like to drop despondently onto a rock to pout, but you have to look before you sit, because there are goat doodies everywhere.
Etymology
Respelling of duty (“act of urinating or defecating”), possibly by analogy with doodoo and/or because the sense is so far removed from the usual meaning of "duty."
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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