dookie
"dookie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dookie” is uncommon English (frequency #63,569 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,569
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - swimming costume, bathing suit
Corpus desk
Index EN-dookie · dookie · English
dookie · rank #63,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,569
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dorr
Nearest frequency peer: dorr (+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 “dookie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dignify
dignify
36,438 corpus weight
- dimorphism
dimorphism
36,436 corpus weight
- disadvantag…
disadvantageous
36,435 corpus weight
- disharmony
disharmony
36,434 corpus weight
- dookie
dookie
36,432 corpus weight
- dorr
dorr
36,431 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dookie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dookie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dookie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dookie is uncommon English at frequency #63,569 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "swimming costume, bathing suit".
dookie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker (terms related to the British English duck, equivalent to the American English dunk) have all been used to refer to Baptists. Hence a dookie in Scots is, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptisi… The correct English form is dookie, spelled D-O-O-K-I-E.
Definition
- 1swimming costume, bathing suit
Etymology
In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker (terms related to the British English duck, equivalent to the American English dunk) have all been used to refer to Baptists. Hence a dookie in Scots is, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptising them.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).