damming
/ˈdæmɪŋ/
"damming" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“damming” is uncommon English (frequency #65,034 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,034
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of dam
Corpus desk
Index EN-damming · damming · English
damming · rank #65,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,034
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dalmatia
Nearest frequency peer: Dalmatia (-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 “damming”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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34,972 corpus weight
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34,971 corpus weight
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34,970 corpus weight
- Dalmatia
Dalmatia
34,968 corpus weight
- damming
damming
34,967 corpus weight
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34,964 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “damming” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdæmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “damming” in English
Rare enough to double-check
damming is uncommon English at frequency #65,034 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈdæmɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of dam".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for damming, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 damming, spelled D-A-M-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund 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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