dorures
\dɔ.ʁyʁ\
The verdict
“dorures” is uncommon French (frequency #53,903 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,903
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dorure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorures · dorures · French
dorures · rank #53,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,903
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dorcel
Nearest frequency peer: Dorcel (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dorures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- donut
donut
46,100 corpus weight
- Dorcel
Dorcel
46,099 corpus weight
- dorures
dorures
46,098 corpus weight
- doublures
doublures
46,097 corpus weight
- doubt
doubt
46,096 corpus weight
- Dounia
Dounia
46,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dorures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dorures is uncommon French at frequency #53,903 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.ʁyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dorure.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dorures, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 French form is dorures, spelled D-O-R-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dorure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dorures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez le pharmacien de la rue Grande, parmi les dorures, Palmyre, éreintée et debout, attendait qu’on lui préparât une potion pour son frère, malade depuis une semaine : quelque sale drogue qui lui mangeait vingt sous, sur les quarante si durement gagnés.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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