damnedest
"damnedest" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“damnedest” is uncommon English (frequency #73,105 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,105
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of damned: most damned; surprising, remarkable, amazing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-damnedest · damnedest · English
damnedest · rank #73,105 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,105
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Daejeon
Nearest frequency peer: Daejeon (-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 “damnedest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cytology
cytology
26,901 corpus weight
- cytosine
cytosine
26,900 corpus weight
- Daejeon
Daejeon
26,897 corpus weight
- damnedest
damnedest
26,896 corpus weight
- Dampier
Dampier
26,895 corpus weight
- Davin
Davin
26,892 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “damnedest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damnedest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “damnedest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
damnedest is uncommon English at frequency #73,105 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of damned: most damned; surprising, remarkable, amazing.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for damnedest, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From damned + -est. The correct English form is damnedest, spelled D-A-M-N-E-D-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of damned: most damned; surprising, remarkable, amazing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how damnedest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"And the damnedest thing happened. I was dreaming, but in my dream I was dreaming. It was the damnedest thing, really."
Etymology
From damned + -est.
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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