durn

/dɜː(ɹ)n/adjective, adverb, interjection, verb, noun

durn is spelled D-U-R-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, durn means “darn; damn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in durn?

Letters	4: D-U-R-N
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is durn?

Durn appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.

durn0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce durn?

/dɜː(ɹ)n/

Durn has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-durn.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of durn

durns plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does durn mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

1
USinformaldarn; damn.

adverb

1
USinformalDarn; damned; extremely.

interjection

1
USinformaldarn; damn

verb

1
slangRhoticized pronunciation of doing.
How ya durn?

noun

1
Alternative form of dern (“a doorpost”).
2
Abbreviation of duration.