Damascus
/dəˈmæskəs/
"damascus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Damascus” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,131
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th cen...
Corpus desk
Index EN-damascus · Damascus · English
Damascus · rank #13,131 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,131
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 26,416
- PHOTO-FINISH cynical
Nearest frequency peer: cynical (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Damascus”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- crawling
crawling
86,873 corpus weight
- crusade
crusade
86,872 corpus weight
- cynical
cynical
86,871 corpus weight
- Damascus
Damascus
86,870 corpus weight
- devised
devised
86,869 corpus weight
- discarded
discarded
86,868 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Damascus” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Damascus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /dəˈmæskəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Damascus” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Damascus (IPA /dəˈmæskəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,131 among 26,416 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th cen...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Damascus, with forms such as "admascus", "daamscus", and "damacsus". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Dāmascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic form akin to Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק and Samalian 𐤃𐤌𐤔𐤒 (dmšq). Doublet of Dimashq. The correct English form is Damascus, spelled D-A-M-A-S-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE.
Etymology
From Latin Dāmascus, from Ancient Greek Δαμασκός (Damaskós), from a Semitic form akin to Hebrew דַּמֶּשֶׂק and Samalian 𐤃𐤌𐤔𐤒 (dmšq). Doublet of Dimashq.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- admascus
- daamscus
- damacsus
- damasccus
- damascsu
- damascuss
- damasscus
- damasucs
- dammascus
- damsacus
- ddamascus
- dmaascus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Damascus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Damascus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.