Damme
\ˈdamə\
The verdict
“Damme” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,346) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,346
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante du datif singulier de Damm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-damme · Damme · French
Damme · rank #36,346 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,346
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cuisant
Nearest frequency peer: cuisant (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Damme »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- crânienne
crânienne
63,658 corpus weight
- cuirs
cuirs
63,657 corpus weight
- cuisant
cuisant
63,656 corpus weight
- Damme
Damme
63,655 corpus weight
- deals
deals
63,654 corpus weight
- denrée
denrée
63,653 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Damme » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Damme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdamə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Damme »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Damme is neighbouring look-alikes ("Date", "Dave", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈdamə\. Frequency #36,346 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Variante du datif singulier de Damm.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Damme, with forms such as "admme", "damem", and "ddamme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Date", "Dave", "damn", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Damme, spelled D-A-M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Variante du datif singulier de Damm.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- admme
- damem
- ddamme
- dmame
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Damme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).