damns
/dæmz/
"damns" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“damns” is uncommon English (frequency #94,739 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,739
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of damn
Corpus desk
Index EN-damns · damns · English
damns · rank #94,739 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,739
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Damodar
Nearest frequency peer: Damodar (+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 “damns”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cupar
Cupar
5,268 corpus weight
- Cwmbran
Cwmbran
5,265 corpus weight
- damns
damns
5,262 corpus weight
- Damodar
Damodar
5,261 corpus weight
- danna
danna
5,260 corpus weight
- dazzler
dazzler
5,256 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “damns” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damns |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dæmz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “damns” in English
Rare enough to double-check
damns is uncommon English at frequency #94,739 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dæmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of damn".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for damns, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is damns, spelled D-A-M-N-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of damn
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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