damer

\da.me\

/\da.me\/ verb

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The verdict

“damer” is uncommon French (frequency #73,881 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,881
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pilonner le sol avec une dame, afin de le compacter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-damer · damer · French

damer · rank #73,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,881
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH cédons

Nearest frequency peer: cédons (-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 « damer »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « damer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for damer
PropertyValue
Headworddamer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\da.me\
Letters5
Frequency rank#73,881
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « damer » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.damertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « cédons » (#73,880), « Damiette » (#73,882), « curation » (#73,878). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « damer » est au #73,881. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

damer is uncommon French at frequency #73,881 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \da.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for damer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is damer, spelled D-A-M-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pilonner le sol avec une dame, afin de le compacter.
  2. 2
    Compacter et lisser la neige à l’aide d’une dameuse.
  3. 3
    Fouler la charge d’un mortier.
  4. 4
    Atteindre, avec un de ses pions, la dernière rangée des cases opposées aux siennes, et ainsi le promouvoir (aux échecs, le plus souvent pour en faire une dame, mais pas forcément).
  5. 5
    Mettre un pion sur celui que l’adversaire a poussé jusqu’au dernier rang des cases opposées aux siennes.
  6. 6
    Accorder à une demoiselle le titre de dame, titre qui ne se donnait qu’aux femmes de nobles ou d’écuyers.
  7. 7
    Manger.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how damer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Leur rôle est de damer la surface de la chaussée et de la « fermer » pour que l’eau ruisselle dessus.
  2. En 1978, trois appareils assuraient le service, équipés d’une "bavette" […]. Cela n’avait aucune efficacité sur la neige gelée, et il fallait toujours 25 heures environ pour damer la totalité de la station.

Synonyms

aller à dame

This word in other languages

groom(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "damer"?
"damer" is spelled D-A-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \da.me\.
What does "damer" mean?
As a verb, "damer" means: Pilonner le sol avec une dame, afin de le compacter.
How do you pronounce "damer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "damer" is \da.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "damer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

davet#73,884desde#73,894crado#73,864couds#73,858

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list