doty
"doty" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doty” is uncommon English (frequency #62,850 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,850
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suffering from rot, or waterlogged
Corpus desk
Index EN-doty · doty · English
doty · rank #62,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,850
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH downloader
Nearest frequency peer: downloader (+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 “doty”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- diz
diz
37,156 corpus weight
- doling
doling
37,153 corpus weight
- doty
doty
37,151 corpus weight
- downloader
downloader
37,150 corpus weight
- Dravidian
Dravidian
37,149 corpus weight
- driller
driller
37,147 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “doty” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “doty” in English
Rare enough to double-check
doty is uncommon English at frequency #62,850 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for doty, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dote + -y. The correct English form is doty, spelled D-O-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Suffering from rot, or waterlogged
- 2Senile; in one's dotage
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An hour later, he came upon a hollow tree, filled with doty wood which he could tear out with his hands and he built a fire and broiled a little more bacon.
Etymology
From dote + -y.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).