damn it
The verdict
“damn it” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an interjection - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Expression de colère, irritation, mépris ou déception.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damn it |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˈdæm ɪt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “damn it” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for damn it is 7 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈdæm ɪt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Expression de colère, irritation, mépris ou déception.".
No misspelling variants are generated for damn it in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 damn it, spelled D-A-M-N- -I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Expression de colère, irritation, mépris ou déception.
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Using “damn it”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-N- -I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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