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endure

/ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/verb

endure is spelled E-N-D-U-R-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, endure means “To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in endure?

Letters6: E-N-D-U-R-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 endure?

Endure appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce endure?

  • /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/
  • [ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə̯(ɹ)]
  • /ɪnˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)/

Endure has 2 syllables (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: En-us-endure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of endure

  • endures present, singular, he/she/it
  • enduring participle, present
  • endured participle, past

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

What does endure mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

    The singer's popularity endured for decades.

  2. 2

    To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.

  3. 3

    To last.

    Our love will endure forever.

  4. 4

    To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

  5. 5

    To suffer patiently.

    He endured years of pain.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo indurate.

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

Endure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchendurer, perdurer (to continue despite obstacles), supporter (to tolerate something)
Germanertragen, aushalten (to continue despite obstacles), dulden (to tolerate something), von Bestand sein, dauern (to last)
Portugueseaguentar, prevalecer (to continue despite obstacles), suportar (to tolerate something), durar, resistir (to last)
Spanishaguantar, perdurar, turar (to continue despite obstacles), sobrellevar, endurar (to tolerate something), durar (to last)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does endure come from?

From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin indūrō (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English drēogan, which survives dialectally as dree. Doublet of dure.

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

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