Dougherty
The verdict
“Dougherty” is uncommon French (frequency #86,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,625
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-dougherty · Dougherty · French
Dougherty · rank #86,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,625
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doron
Nearest frequency peer: doron (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Dougherty »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dolor
dolor
13,379 corpus weight
- doni
doni
13,378 corpus weight
- doron
doron
13,377 corpus weight
- Dougherty
Dougherty
13,376 corpus weight
- draguait
draguait
13,375 corpus weight
- drei
drei
13,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dougherty » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dougherty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dougherty » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dougherty is uncommon French at frequency #86,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
Zero misspellings are on record for Dougherty in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Dougherty, spelled D-O-U-G-H-E-R-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dougherty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si vous avez un jour l’occasion de visiter New York, vous tomberez presque immanquablement sur un tableau de Paul Hampden Dougherty, puisque dix musées de la ville en possèdent.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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