damsels
/ˈdæmzəlz/
"damsels" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“damsels” is uncommon English (frequency #63,544 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,544
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of damsel
Corpus desk
Index EN-damsels · damsels · English
damsels · rank #63,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,544
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dasher
Nearest frequency peer: dasher (+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 “damsels”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cryer
cryer
36,466 corpus weight
- currier
currier
36,463 corpus weight
- Daan
Daan
36,460 corpus weight
- damsels
damsels
36,457 corpus weight
- dasher
dasher
36,456 corpus weight
- deferment
deferment
36,449 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “damsels” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damsels |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdæmzəlz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “damsels” in English
Rare enough to double-check
damsels is uncommon English at frequency #63,544 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdæmzəlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of damsel".
No misspelling variants are generated for damsels in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is damsels, spelled D-A-M-S-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of damsel
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).