endure
/ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/
"endure" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“endure” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #9,328 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #9,328
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endure |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “endure” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for endure is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,328 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for endure, with forms such as "ednure", "enddure", and "endrue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "ensue", "entre", "entire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree ▲ Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Italic *dūros Latin dūrūs Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto… The correct English form is endure, spelled E-N-D-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
- 2To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
- 3To last.
- 4To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
- 5To suffer patiently.
- 6To indurate.
Etymology
Etymology tree ▲ Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁en- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Italic *dūros Latin dūrūs Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin dūrō Latin indūrō Latin indūrāreder. Old French endurerbor. Middle English enduren English endure 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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ednure,enddure,endrue,enduer,endurre,enndure,enudre,nedure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of endure - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “endure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-N-D-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪnˈd͡ʒʊə(ɹ)/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ensue” - see the side-by-side comparison. endure vs ensue
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.