damas
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,304
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
damas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étoffe de soie à fleurs ou à dessins en relief où le satin et le taffetas sont mêlés ensemble et qui se fabriquait originairement à Damas, en Syrie ; les fleurs sont en satin à l’endroit et forment... Pronounced \da.ma\. It ranks #9,304 in French word frequency. Often confused with das and dans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for damas is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \da.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,304 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for damas, with forms such as "admas", "daams", and "damass". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "das", "dans", "dame", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is damas, spelled D-A-M-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Étoffe de soie à fleurs ou à dessins en relief où le satin et le taffetas sont mêlés ensemble et qui se fabriquait originairement à Damas, en Syrie ; les fleurs sont en satin à l’endroit et forment le taffetas et le fond de l’envers, et le taffetas qui fait le fond à l’endroit est le satin de l’envers.
- 2Linge ouvré pour service de table: « Damas de table ».
- 3Étoffe de laine, de coton ou de fil de lin damassée qui se fabrique surtout en Basse-Normandie.
- 4Sabre fabriqué à Damas et qui est une lame de fer recouverte, sur tout le fil, d’un tranchant d’acier.
- 5Technique qui consiste à forger ensemble un mélange de différentes qualités d’acier pour créer un métal extrêmement dur, l’acier damassé, reconnaissable à sa surface à l’aspect moiré.
- 6Nom d’une prune.
- 7« Raisin de Damas », sorte de raisin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: admas,daams,damass,dammas,damsa,ddamas,dmaas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for damas
Misspelling Variants of "damas"
Frequency rank: #9,304 in French
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