damnation
\dɑ.na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“damnation” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,492
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de damner, de se damner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-damnation · damnation · French
damnation · rank #34,492 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,492
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dad
Nearest frequency peer: dad (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « damnation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cubique
cubique
65,513 corpus weight
- céleri
céleri
65,512 corpus weight
- céréale
céréale
65,511 corpus weight
- dad
dad
65,510 corpus weight
- damnation
damnation
65,509 corpus weight
- Daoud
Daoud
65,508 corpus weight
What this shows « damnation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | damnation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « damnation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around damnation (IPA \dɑ.na.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,492 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for damnation, with forms such as "admnation", "damantion", and "dammnation". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "donation", "datation", "domination", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is damnation, spelled D-A-M-N-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de damner, de se damner.
- 2Punition des damnés ; sentence qui conduit à l’enfer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how damnation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La damnation pour une source Où coule des grains de velours Dans ta main et puis dans ta bourse Comme une monnaie au long cours…
Je n’ai ni le génie, ni la magnifique position de lord Byron ; je n’ai pas surtout l’auréole de sa damnation postiche.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- admnation
- damantion
- dammnation
- damnaiton
- damnatino
- damnationn
- damnatoin
- damnattion
- damnnation
- damntaion
- danmation
- ddamnation
- dmanation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of damnation - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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