damaging
/ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
"damaging" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“damaging” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #8,136 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #8,136
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
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 | damaging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “damaging” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for damaging is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,136 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Causing damage; harmful, injurious.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for damaging, with forms such as "admaging", "daamging", and "damagging". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "damning", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From damage + -ing. The correct English form is damaging, spelled D-A-M-A-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
Etymology
From damage + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: admaging,daamging,damagging,damagign,damagingg,damaginng,damagnig,damaigng,damgaing,dammaging,ddamaging,dmaaging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of damaging - 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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Using “damaging”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-A-M-A-G-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “damning” - see the side-by-side comparison. damaging vs damning
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.