dédommage
\de.dɔ.maʒ\
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
- décontenancé
décontenancé
26,085 corpus weight
- découlait
découlait
26,084 corpus weight
- dédales
dédales
26,083 corpus weight
- dédommage
dédommage
26,082 corpus weight
- dédoubler
dédoubler
26,080 corpus weight
- défrichemen…
défrichements
26,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dédommage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dédommage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.dɔ.maʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dédommage » en français
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
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dédommager.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de dédommager.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de dédommager.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent de dédommager.
- 5Deuxième 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.
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