damage
[ˈdæmɪdʒ]
The verdict
“damage” is uncommon German (frequency #52,013 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,013
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schaden, Beschädigung
Corpus desk
Index DE-damage · damage · German
damage · rank #52,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,013
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH cui
Nearest frequency peer: cui (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “damage”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Connections
Connections
47,991 corpus weight
- cui
cui
47,989 corpus weight
- damage
damage
47,988 corpus weight
- darstellend…
darstellenden
47,987 corpus weight
- Datenlage
Datenlage
47,986 corpus weight
- davonlaufen
davonlaufen
47,985 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “damage” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damage |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdæmɪdʒ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “damage” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
damage is uncommon German at frequency #52,013 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdæmɪdʒ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for damage in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is damage, spelled D-A-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Schaden, Beschädigung
- 2Nachteil, Verlust
- 3Schadensersatz (nur Mehrzahl!)
- 4Kosten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how damage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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