# detriment

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/ · frequency rank #20,607

## Definitions
1. Harm, hurt, damage.
2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
3. The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
4. The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).

## Etymology
From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”).
Detriment is related to the word detritus, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.

## Easily confused with
- **detrimental** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/detriment-vs-detrimental)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ddetriment`, `dertiment`, `detirment`, `detriemnt`, `detrimennt`, `detrimentt`, `detrimetn`, `detrimment`, `detrimnet`, `detrmient`, `detrriment`, `dettriment`, `dteriment`, `edtriment`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/detriment