damnée
\da.ne\
The verdict
“damnée” is uncommon French (frequency #62,906 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,906
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme condamnée aux peines de l’enfer, ou qui souffre de nombreux maux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-damnee · damnée · French
damnée · rank #62,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,906
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH cyrénaïque
Nearest frequency peer: cyrénaïque (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “damnée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- croupir
croupir
37,099 corpus weight
- crûment
crûment
37,098 corpus weight
- cyrénaïque
cyrénaïque
37,096 corpus weight
- damnée
damnée
37,095 corpus weight
- Daumier
Daumier
37,093 corpus weight
- demanderesse
demanderesse
37,092 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “damnée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damnée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “damnée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
damnée is uncommon French at frequency #62,906 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme condamnée aux peines de l’enfer, ou qui souffre de nombreux maux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for damnée, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is damnée, spelled D-A-M-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme condamnée aux peines de l’enfer, ou qui souffre de nombreux maux.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.