dammed
/dæmd/
"dammed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dammed” is uncommon English (frequency #52,875 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,875
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dam
Corpus desk
Index EN-dammed · dammed · English
dammed · rank #52,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,875
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Daugherty
Nearest frequency peer: Daugherty (+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 “dammed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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coot
47,131 corpus weight
- cornstarch
cornstarch
47,130 corpus weight
- cruiserweig…
cruiserweight
47,128 corpus weight
- dammed
dammed
47,126 corpus weight
- Daugherty
Daugherty
47,125 corpus weight
- decimate
decimate
47,123 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dammed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dammed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dæmd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dammed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dammed is uncommon English at frequency #52,875 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dæmd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of dam".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dammed in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is dammed, spelled D-A-M-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dam
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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