durable
\dy.ʁabl\
The verdict
“durable” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,327. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,327
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de nature ou qui est fait de manière à durer longtemps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durable · durable · French
durable · rank #3,327 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,327
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drame
Nearest frequency peer: drame (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « durable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Cousin
Cousin
96,677 corpus weight
- différences
différences
96,676 corpus weight
- drame
drame
96,675 corpus weight
- durable
durable
96,674 corpus weight
- dynamique
dynamique
96,673 corpus weight
- déplacement
déplacement
96,672 corpus weight
What this shows « durable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dy.ʁabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « durable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around durable (IPA \dy.ʁabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,327 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for durable, with forms such as "ddurable", "druable", and "duarble". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Durance", "durables", "diable", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is durable, spelled D-U-R-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est de nature ou qui est fait de manière à durer longtemps.
- 2Qui s'inscrit dans une vision à long terme de l'équilibre écologique de la Terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais si la beauté impressionne les sens, elle ne saurait obtenir d’empire durable et puissant qu’autant qu’elle les subjugue.
Cet apprêt et le brillant qu'on a donné au drap ne seraient pas durables : ce drap se tacherait et se retirerait lorsqu'il viendrait à être mouillé, si on ne le décatissait pas en le faisant passer dans une vapeur humide et sans pression.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddurable
- druable
- duarble
- durabble
- durabel
- durablle
- duralbe
- durbale
- durrable
- udrable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of durable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).