Duras
"duras" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Duras” is uncommon English (frequency #77,623 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,623
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional French red wine grape mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-duras · Duras · English
Duras · rank #77,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,623
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Duolingo
Nearest frequency peer: Duolingo (-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 “Duras”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- driveshaft
driveshaft
22,382 corpus weight
- dually
dually
22,381 corpus weight
- Duolingo
Duolingo
22,379 corpus weight
- Duras
Duras
22,378 corpus weight
- dysphagia
dysphagia
22,376 corpus weight
- ebullient
ebullient
22,373 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Duras” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duras |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Duras” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Duras is uncommon English at frequency #77,623 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A traditional French red wine grape mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse.".
Duras doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain. There is no known connection with the Côtes de Duras east of Bordeaux. The correct English form is Duras, spelled D-U-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1A traditional French red wine grape mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse.
Etymology
Uncertain. There is no known connection with the Côtes de Duras east of Bordeaux.
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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