dur
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#940
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dur is anFrenchadj. It means: Ferme ; difficile à pénétrer ou à entamer. Pronounced \dyʁ\. It ranks #940 in French word frequency. Often confused with DV and dy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dur is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #940 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dur in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DV", "dy", "dz", 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 dur, spelled D-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ferme ; difficile à pénétrer ou à entamer.
- 2Qui est opposé à fin.
- 3Qui est insensible, inhumain ou très sévère ; fâcheux, affligeant, difficile à supporter ; pénible ; rude et désagréable à la sensation.
- 4Il se dit, dans un sens analogue, des dehors, des manières, des discours.
- 5Qui est marqué trop fortement ; qui est raide ou heurté.
- 6Difficile.
- 7Qui résiste à ; qui supporte.
- 8Qualifie une mer agitée, aux vagues courtes.
- 9Qualifie une eau dont la teneur en ions calcium et magnésium dépasse un certain seuil, lequel peut varier selon les normes en vigueur dans chaque pays.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #940 in French
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