damascene
"damascene" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“damascene” is uncommon English (frequency #84,144 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,144
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Archaic form of damson.
Corpus desk
Index EN-damascene · damascene · English
damascene · rank #84,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,144
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Damiano
Nearest frequency peer: Damiano (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “damascene”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- daguerreoty…
daguerreotype
15,862 corpus weight
- dairying
dairying
15,860 corpus weight
- damascene
damascene
15,857 corpus weight
- Damiano
Damiano
15,856 corpus weight
- darl
darl
15,853 corpus weight
- Darragh
Darragh
15,852 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “damascene” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damascene |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “damascene” in English
Rare enough to double-check
damascene is uncommon English at frequency #84,144 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for damascene, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is damascene, spelled D-A-M-A-S-C-E-N-E.
Definition
- 1Archaic form of damson.
- 2A pigeon of a certain breed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how damascene appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As Emily was carrying one of the jars, she perceived that it was tied down so loosely that she could put in her finger and get at the fruit. Accordingly she took out one of the damascenes, and ate it[…]
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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