dame
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,255
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dame is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme qui appartient à la noblesse. Pronounced \dam\. It ranks #1,255 in French word frequency. Often confused with de and dm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dame is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,255 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for dame, with forms such as "adme", "daem", and "ddame". 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, "de", "dm", "due", 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 dame, spelled D-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme qui appartient à la noblesse.
- 2Femme à laquelle un chevalier consacrait ses soins et ses exploits.
- 3Titre donné aux religieuses des abbayes et ainsi qu’aux chanoinesses.
- 4Titre que l’on donnait par honneur aux femmes.
- 5Femme d’un rang social élevé.
- 6Terme courtois pour toute femme adulte.
- 7Femme, épouse.
- 8Toute femme.
- 9Pièce de nombreux jeux de pions ou de cartes.
- 10Pièce constituée par deux pions l’un sur l’autre pouvant se déplacer sur tout le damier.
- 11Reine, pièce du jeu d’échecs.
- 12Reine, élément d’un jeu de cartes.
- 13Pièce du jacquet, de trictrac, de backgammon.
- 14Allégorie d’une construction, d’une institution dont le substantif est au féminin.
- 15Outil de travaux publics, muni de deux anses, ou doté d’un manche, servant à tasser le sol ou à enfoncer des pavés.
- 16Ellipse de « dame de nage ». Désigne un tolet à fourche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adme,daem,ddame,dmae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dame
Misspelling Variants of "dame"
Frequency rank: #1,255 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: