Durance
\dy.ʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“Durance” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,769
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durance · Durance · French
Durance · rank #37,769 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,769
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dupin
Nearest frequency peer: Dupin (-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 « Durance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- druides
druides
62,235 corpus weight
- DSM
DSM
62,234 corpus weight
- Dupin
Dupin
62,233 corpus weight
- Durance
Durance
62,232 corpus weight
- durci
durci
62,231 corpus weight
- déconstruire
déconstruire
62,229 corpus weight
What this shows « Durance » 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 | Durance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Durance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Durance (IPA \dy.ʁɑ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,769 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Durance, with forms such as "ddurance", "druance", and "duarnce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "durant", "Durand", "dance", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Durance, spelled D-U-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddurance
- druance
- duarnce
- duracne
- durancce
- duranec
- durannce
- durnace
- durrance
- udrance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Durance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Durance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).