Damm
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,347
in German word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Damm is aGermannoun. It means: durch schüttende Anhäufung von Erdmassen und/oder Felsen, Steinen errichteter Wall Pronounced [dam]. It ranks #9,347 in German word frequency. Often confused with dm and das.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Damm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dam] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Damm is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dam]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,347 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for Damm, with forms such as "admm", "ddamm", and "dmam". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dm", "das", "dem", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Damm, spelled D-A-M-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1durch schüttende Anhäufung von Erdmassen und/oder Felsen, Steinen errichteter Wall
- 2der unter [1] beschriebene Wall als Uferbefestigung eines Gewässers zum Schutz vor Hochwasser
- 3Anlage zum Stauen von Wasser
- 4der unter [1] beschriebene Wall als Unterbau eines Verkehrsweges (Fahrweg, Schienenweg)
- 5in sumpfigem Gelände aus Holz (zumeist Holzbohlen) gefertigter Unterbau eines Fußweges
- 6Teil einer befestigten Straße, der für den Fahrzeugverkehr bestimmt ist
- 7etwas, was (das Weiterkommen, das Erreichen eines Zieles, eine Entwicklung) be- oder verhindert
- 8(bei Säugetieren, ausgenommen Kloakentieren, vorhandene) Körperstelle, die als Weichteil-Brücke, den Darmausgang (After, Anus) von den äußeren Geschlechtsorganen (Hodensack/Skrotum, Scham/Vulva) trennt
- 9einen partiellen Bereich des Grubengebäudes von den übrigen Grubenbauten trennendes Bauwerk, das einen teilweisen oder vollständigen Verschluss der Strecke herstellt, um entweder zu verhindern, dass Wasser einströmt oder um den Wetterzug in eine bestimmte Richtung zu lenken oder um das weitere Ausbreiten eines Grubenbrandes zu verhindern
- 10künstlicher See zum Sammeln von Wasser (Stausee)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: admm,ddamm,dmam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Damm
Misspelling Variants of "Damm"
Frequency rank: #9,347 in German
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