organ donor

noun

"organ-donor" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“organ donor” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person (living or dead) from whom an organ is removed in order to be transplanted into another person.

Corpus desk

Index EN-organ-donor · organ donor · English

organ donor · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for organ donor
PropertyValue
Headwordorgan donor
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “organ donor” in English

organ donorsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

organ donor is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for organ donor in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is organ donor, spelled O-R-G-A-N- -D-O-N-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    A person (living or dead) from whom an organ is removed in order to be transplanted into another person.
  2. 2
    A motorcyclist, especially one who does not wear a protective helmet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how organ donor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 2006, Bill Lankhof, Head Case, Slam! Sports (Canada), 14 Jun. (retrieved 21 Aug. 2008), Wearing a motorcycle helmet is optional in Pennsylvania, but that's no reason for Ben Roethlisberger to go out and practise his organ donor technique.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "organ donor"?
"organ donor" is spelled O-R-G-A-N- -D-O-N-O-R.
What does "organ donor" mean?
As a noun, "organ donor" means: A person (living or dead) from whom an organ is removed in order to be transplanted into another person.
What language does "organ donor" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list