dédommage

\de.dɔ.maʒ\

/\de.dɔ.maʒ\/ verb

The verdict

“dédommage” is uncommon French (frequency #73,919 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,919
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dédommager.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dedommage · dédommage · French

dédommage · rank #73,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,919
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dédales

Nearest frequency peer: dédales (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « dédommage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dédommage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dédommage
PropertyValue
Headworddédommage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.dɔ.maʒ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#73,919
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dédommage » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dédommagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « dédales » (#73,918), « découlait » (#73,917), « dédoubler » (#73,921). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dédommage » est au #73,919. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dédommage is uncommon French at frequency #73,919 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.dɔ.maʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for dédommage in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dédommage, spelled D-É-D-O-M-M-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dédommager.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dédommager.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de dédommager.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de dédommager.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dédommager.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dédommage"?
"dédommage" is spelled D-É-D-O-M-M-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.dɔ.maʒ\.
What does "dédommage" mean?
As a verb, "dédommage" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dédommager.
How do you pronounce "dédommage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dédommage" is \de.dɔ.maʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dédommage" come from?
"dédommage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dédommage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list