Damascène
\da.ma.sɛn\
The verdict
“Damascène” is uncommon French (frequency #87,518 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,518
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant de Damas, capitale de Syrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-damascene · Damascène · French
Damascène · rank #87,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,518
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dain
Nearest frequency peer: dain (-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 « Damascène »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céphalique
céphalique
12,487 corpus weight
- dactylograp…
dactylographie
12,486 corpus weight
- daigner
daigner
12,485 corpus weight
- dain
dain
12,484 corpus weight
- Damascène
Damascène
12,483 corpus weight
- danaïdes
danaïdes
12,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Damascène » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Damascène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.ma.sɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Damascène » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Damascène is uncommon French at frequency #87,518 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.ma.sɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitant de Damas, capitale de Syrie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Damascène in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Damascène, spelled D-A-M-A-S-C-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Habitant de Damas, capitale de Syrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Damascène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Damascène Anghélos Keusséoglou décrit avec émotion cette fascinante intimité dans Le vieux Damas qui s’en va.
This word in other languages
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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