duraient
\dy.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“duraient” is uncommon French (frequency #57,217 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,217
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de durer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duraient · duraient · French
duraient · rank #57,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,217
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drôlerie
Nearest frequency peer: drôlerie (-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 « duraient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissidentes
dissidentes
42,788 corpus weight
- doctoral
doctoral
42,787 corpus weight
- dressez
dressez
42,786 corpus weight
- drôlerie
drôlerie
42,785 corpus weight
- duraient
duraient
42,784 corpus weight
- débonnaire
débonnaire
42,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duraient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duraient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dy.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duraient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duraient is uncommon French at frequency #57,217 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dy.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de durer.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for duraient, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is duraient, spelled D-U-R-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de durer.
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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