duc
[ˈduk]
The verdict
“duc” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #63,017 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,017
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona singular del presente de indicativo de dur.
Corpus desk
Index ES-duc · duc · Spanish
duc · rank #63,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,017
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH druida
Nearest frequency peer: druida (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “duc”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dominará
dominará
36,987 corpus weight
- droit
droit
36,986 corpus weight
- druida
druida
36,985 corpus weight
- duc
duc
36,984 corpus weight
- duplicaron
duplicaron
36,983 corpus weight
- dúplex
dúplex
36,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “duc” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duc |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈduk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “duc” en español
Rare enough to double-check
duc is uncommon Spanish at frequency #63,017 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈduk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Primera persona singular del presente de indicativo de dur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duc, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is duc, spelled D-U-C.
Definition
- 1Primera persona singular del presente de indicativo de dur.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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