Durr
"durr" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Durr” is uncommon English (frequency #74,919 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,919
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-durr · Durr · English
Durr · rank #74,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,919
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Duvernay
Nearest frequency peer: Duvernay (+2 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 “Durr”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- duddy
duddy
25,086 corpus weight
- Durr
Durr
25,082 corpus weight
- Duvernay
Duvernay
25,080 corpus weight
- Eed
Eed
25,077 corpus weight
- efferent
efferent
25,076 corpus weight
- egoistic
egoistic
25,075 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Durr” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Durr |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Durr” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Durr is uncommon English at frequency #74,919 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Durr in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a German surname, from the adjective dürr (“dried up”). Compare Duerr. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Doraidh, from Old Irish doraid (“doorkeeper”) (compare doras). Compare Dore. The correct English form is Durr, spelled D-U-R-R.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As a German surname, from the adjective dürr (“dried up”). Compare Duerr. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Doraidh, from Old Irish doraid (“doorkeeper”) (compare doras). Compare Dore.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).