dual
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,623
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dual is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit de deux polyèdres réguliers lorsqu’on obtient l’un en échangeant les faces et sommets de l’autre. Pronounced \dɥal\. Often confused with dur and duc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dual |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dɥal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dual is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɥal\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,623 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for dual, with forms such as "daul", "ddual", and "duall". 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, "dur", "duc", "due", 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 French form is dual, spelled D-U-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit de deux polyèdres réguliers lorsqu’on obtient l’un en échangeant les faces et sommets de l’autre.
- 2Se dit de propriétés qui sont par deux et qui présentent un caractère de réciprocité.
- 3Équation, expression duale : Qui se déduit d’une équation ou d’une expression écrite avec les symboles d’union et d’intersection en inversant ces symboles.
- 4Double (avec un caractère de réciprocité).
- 5Société duale : Dans laquelle existent une population à hauts revenus et à forte productivité et une population à revenus et productivité faibles.
- 6Se dit d'un graphe défini à l'aide des composantes de son complémentaire, reliées par ses arêtes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: daul,ddual,duall,dula,udal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dual
Misspelling Variants of "dual"
Frequency rank: #25,623 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: