damages
\da.maʒ\
The verdict
“damages” is uncommon French (frequency #83,761 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,761
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de damage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-damages · damages · French
damages · rank #83,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,761
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dafoe
Nearest frequency peer: Dafoe (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « damages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céphalée
céphalée
16,244 corpus weight
- céramistes
céramistes
16,243 corpus weight
- Dafoe
Dafoe
16,241 corpus weight
- damages
damages
16,240 corpus weight
- dandin
dandin
16,238 corpus weight
- danza
danza
16,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « damages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « damages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
damages is uncommon French at frequency #83,761 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.maʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de damage.".
damages has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is damages, spelled D-A-M-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de damage.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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