Dampierre
The verdict
“Dampierre” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #42,272 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #42,272
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aube.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dampierre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.pjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dampierre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Dampierre is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃.pjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,272 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dampierre, with forms such as "admpierre", "damiperre", and "dammpierre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Dompierre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Dampierre, spelled D-A-M-P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aube.
- 2Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département du Calvados intégrée à la commune de Val de Drôme en janvier 2017.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département du Jura.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Marne.
- 5Ancienne commune française de l’Indre aujourd’hui intégrée à Gargilesse-Dampierre.
- 6Ancien nom de la commune française Dampierre-en-Bray.
- 7Ancien nom de la commune française Dampierre-en-Yvelines, utilisée jusqu’en 1974
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: admpierre,damiperre,dammpierre,dampeirre,dampiere,dampierer,dampirere,damppierre,dapmierre,ddampierre,dmapierre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dampierre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Dampierre"
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 “Dampierre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-M-P-I-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dɑ̃.pjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Dompierre” - see the side-by-side comparison. Dampierre vs Dompierre
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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