quel dommage
The verdict
“quel dommage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quel dommage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-quel-dommage · quel dommage · French
quel dommage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Q" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quel dommage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « quel dommage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
quel dommage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quel dommage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quel dommage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is quel dommage, spelled Q-U-E-L- -D-O-M-M-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Quel dommage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quel dommage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh, dear me, have I caught you at a bad time? Quel dommage, I'm sure. Your door was open and no servants were about, so that I found myself forced to announce my arrival by rudely calling up the stairs
But then, quel dommage ! I put my little question. I want to be sure that he was not in the village, I say. Can he tell me something which will prove him to have been elsewhere?
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.