give a damn
"give-a-damn" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“give a damn” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To be concerned about, have an interest in, to care (about something).
Corpus desk
Index EN-give-a-damn · give a damn · English
give a damn · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | give a damn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “give a damn” in English
Rare enough to double-check
give a damn is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To be concerned about, have an interest in, to care (about something).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for give a damn, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is give a damn, spelled G-I-V-E- -A- -D-A-M-N.
Definition
- 1To be concerned about, have an interest in, to care (about something).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how give a damn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He doesn't give a damn about your child's painting, he's just interested in the gold frame.
If she actually gave a damn what the law said, she wouldn't have stolen the car in the first place, now would she?
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.