damas

/\da.ma\/ noun

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.

Key facts for damas
PropertyValue
Headworddamas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\da.ma\
Letters5
Frequency rank#9,304
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of damas in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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 le taffetas et le fond de l’envers, et le taffetas qui fait le fond à l’endroit est le satin de l’envers.
  2. 2
    Linge ouvré pour service de table: « Damas de table ».
  3. 3
    Étoffe de laine, de coton ou de fil de lin damassée qui se fabrique surtout en Basse-Normandie.
  4. 4
    Sabre fabriqué à Damas et qui est une lame de fer recouverte, sur tout le fil, d’un tranchant d’acier.
  5. 5
    Technique 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.
  6. 6
    Nom d’une prune.
  7. 7
    « Raisin de Damas », sorte de raisin.

This word in other languages

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"

admas5daams5damass6dammas6damsa5ddamas6dmaas5
Misspelling Variants of "damas"

Frequency rank: #9,304 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "damas"?
"damas" is spelled D-A-M-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \da.ma\.
What does "damas" mean?
As a noun, "damas" 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...
What words are commonly confused with "damas"?
"damas" is commonly confused with "das", "dans", "dame". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "damas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "damas" is \da.ma\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "damas" come from?
"damas" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.