damier
\da.mje\
The verdict
“damier” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #37,756 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #37,756
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Where “damier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for damier is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for damier, with forms such as "admier", "daimer", and "dameir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is damier, spelled D-A-M-I-E-R.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: admier,daimer,dameir,damierr,damire,dammier,ddamier,dmaier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of damier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “damier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \da.mje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “demie” - see the side-by-side comparison. damier vs demie
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.