doughty
/ˈdaʊti/
"doughty" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doughty” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,694
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bold; brave, courageous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doughty · doughty · English
doughty · rank #35,694 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,694
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dominoes
Nearest frequency peer: dominoes (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “doughty”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- diverge
diverge
64,309 corpus weight
- dominoes
dominoes
64,308 corpus weight
- doughty
doughty
64,307 corpus weight
- downpour
downpour
64,306 corpus weight
- drifter
drifter
64,305 corpus weight
- droids
droids
64,304 corpus weight
What this shows “doughty” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doughty |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdaʊti/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “doughty”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around doughty (IPA /ˈdaʊti/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,694 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bold; brave, courageous.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for doughty, with forms such as "ddoughty", "doguhty", and "dougghty". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "drought", "dough", "Dougherty", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg. The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Danis… The correct English form is doughty, spelled D-O-U-G-H-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Bold; brave, courageous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doughty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams's play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg. The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”). The noun is derived from the adjective.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoughty
- doguhty
- dougghty
- doughhty
- doughtty
- doughtyy
- doughyt
- dougthy
- douhgty
- duoghty
- odughty
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doughty - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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