durar

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for durar is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪uˈɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,417 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Continuar siendo, seguir existiendo, mantenerse en el mismo estado, permanecer en la misma situación, desarrollarse en el tiempo.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for durar, with forms such as "ddurar", "druar", and "duarr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "duro", "duros", "Duren", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is durar, spelled D-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.