douchey
"douchey" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“douchey” is uncommon English (frequency #80,398 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,398
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Characteristic of a douche (jerk) or douchebag; obnoxious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-douchey · douchey · English
douchey · rank #80,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,398
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH doxorubicin
Nearest frequency peer: doxorubicin (+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 “douchey”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- douchey
douchey
19,603 corpus weight
- doxorubicin
doxorubicin
19,602 corpus weight
- drownings
drownings
19,600 corpus weight
- drumline
drumline
19,599 corpus weight
- drunker
drunker
19,598 corpus weight
- duodenal
duodenal
19,597 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “douchey” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | douchey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “douchey” in English
Rare enough to double-check
douchey is uncommon English at frequency #80,398 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Characteristic of a douche (jerk) or douchebag; obnoxious.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for douchey, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From douche + -y; see douche bag. The correct English form is douchey, spelled D-O-U-C-H-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Characteristic of a douche (jerk) or douchebag; obnoxious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how douchey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So I have compiled some tips to help Harvard students act less douchey when they are faced with foreign situations this weekend.
Helms describes Andy as "a yacht-clubby guy who's a little douchey but still earnest."
Etymology
From douche + -y; see douche bag.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).