dookie
"dookie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dookie” is an uncommon English word, ranked #63,569 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #63,569
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - swimming costume, bathing suit
| 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) |
Where “dookie” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dookie is 6 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #63,569 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “dookie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-O-K-I-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.