duras
\dy.ʁa\
The verdict
“duras” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,840
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage donnant du raisin à petits grains noirs. Il est essentiellement cultivé dans la région de Gaillac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duras · duras · French
duras · rank #23,840 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,840
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duplessis
Nearest frequency peer: Duplessis (-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 « duras »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Djokovic
Djokovic
76,164 corpus weight
- DP
DP
76,163 corpus weight
- Duplessis
Duplessis
76,162 corpus weight
- duras
duras
76,161 corpus weight
- décerner
décerner
76,160 corpus weight
- décidant
décidant
76,159 corpus weight
What this shows « duras » 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 | duras |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « duras »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around duras (IPA \dy.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,840 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Cépage donnant du raisin à petits grains noirs. Il est essentiellement cultivé dans la région de Gaillac.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for duras, with forms such as "dduras", "druas", and "duars". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dus", "dure", "durs", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 duras, spelled D-U-R-A-S.
Definition
- 1Cépage donnant du raisin à petits grains noirs. Il est essentiellement cultivé dans la région de Gaillac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how duras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monsieur est œnologue, vous pouvez donc faire confiance aux gammes proposées : gaillac blanc fruité et acidulé, rosé fruité et épicé, rouge à dominante duras […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dduras
- druas
- duars
- durass
- durras
- dursa
- udras
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of duras - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).