dames

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The French entry for dames is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dam\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,140 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Jeu de dames, jeu stratégique à deux joueurs, se jouant avec des pions blancs et noirs sur un damier de 64, 100 ou 144 cases selon la variante des règles utilisée.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for dames, with forms such as "admes", "daems", and "damess". 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, "des", "das", "dans", 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 dames, spelled D-A-M-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.