damier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,756
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
damier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plateau de jeu divisé en carreaux égaux, appelés cases, alternativement de deux couleurs différentes, comme noir et blanc, sur lesquels sont déplacées les pièces au jeu de dames ou au checkers. Pronounced \da.mje\. Often confused with demie and dater.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.mje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for damier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \da.mje\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,756 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for damier, with forms such as "admier", "daimer", and "dameir". 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, "demie", "dater", "Damme", 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 damier, spelled D-A-M-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plateau de jeu divisé en carreaux égaux, appelés cases, alternativement de deux couleurs différentes, comme noir et blanc, sur lesquels sont déplacées les pièces au jeu de dames ou au checkers.
- 2Surface divisée régulièrement en carrés contigus et alternés, de deux couleurs ou de deux teintes de la même couleur.
- 3Ville dont la totalité ou une partie des rues sont perpendiculaires.
- 4Quadrillage, surface, espace, couvert de parties ou de parcelles de petite taille.
- 5Présentation de données sous forme de tableau.
- 6Nom vernaculaire d’oiseaux dont la livrée rappelle le dessin d’un jeu de dames, tels le synallaxe damier (Schoeniophylax phryganophilus) et le capucin damier (Lonchura punctulata), deux espèces de passereaux.
- 7Genre monospécifique de grand oiseau pélagique noir et blanc de la famille des procellariidés (e.g. puffins, pétrels, etc.) dont l’unique représentant, le damier du Cap, se retrouve dans tous les océans de l’hémisphère Sud (Daption capensis).
- 8Nom commun de papillons dont la livrée rappelle le dessin d’un jeu de dames.
- 9Coquillage marqueté de carrés de diverses couleurs.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: admier,daimer,dameir,damierr,damire,dammier,ddamier,dmaier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for damier
Misspelling Variants of "damier"
Frequency rank: #37,756 in French
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