damnification

noun

"damnification" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“damnification” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of causing injury or loss.

Corpus desk

Index EN-damnification · damnification · English

damnification · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for damnification
PropertyValue
Headworddamnification
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “damnification” in English

damnificationsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

damnification is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of causing injury or loss.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for damnification, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: Latin damnificatio. The correct English form is damnification, spelled D-A-M-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    The act of causing injury or loss.

Etymology

Latin damnificatio.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "damnification"?
"damnification" is spelled D-A-M-N-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
What does "damnification" mean?
As a noun, "damnification" means: The act of causing injury or loss.
What is the origin of the word "damnification"?
Latin damnificatio. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list