dural
\dy.ʁal\
The verdict
“dural” is uncommon French (frequency #94,721 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,721
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la dure-mère, méninge externe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dural · dural · French
dural · rank #94,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,721
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duns
Nearest frequency peer: Duns (-2 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 « dural »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drosophile
drosophile
5,287 corpus weight
- ductile
ductile
5,284 corpus weight
- Duns
Duns
5,282 corpus weight
- dural
dural
5,280 corpus weight
- déchargeant
déchargeant
5,275 corpus weight
- déconcertée
déconcertée
5,274 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dural » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dural |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dy.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dural » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dural is uncommon French at frequency #94,721 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dy.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la dure-mère, méninge externe.".
dural doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dural, spelled D-U-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la dure-mère, méninge externe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dural appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fistules artérioveineuses durales intracrâniennes.
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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