dural
/ˈdjʊə.ɹəl/
"dural" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dural” is uncommon English (frequency #80,407 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,407
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relating to the dura mater.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dural · dural · English
dural · rank #80,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,407
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dupuy
Nearest frequency peer: Dupuy (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “dural”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- drunker
drunker
19,598 corpus weight
- duodenal
duodenal
19,597 corpus weight
- Dupuy
Dupuy
19,595 corpus weight
- dural
dural
19,594 corpus weight
- earache
earache
19,591 corpus weight
- echinacea
echinacea
19,590 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dural” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dural |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdjʊə.ɹəl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dural” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dural is uncommon English at frequency #80,407 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈdjʊə.ɹəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relating to the dura mater.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dural, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dura + -al. The correct English form is dural, spelled D-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relating to the dura mater.
Etymology
From dura + -al.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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