duration
\dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“duration” is an uncommon French word, ranked #90,647 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #90,647
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Indicateur boursier permettant à un investisseur d'évaluer la sensibilité d'une obligation aux variations des taux d'intérêt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “duration” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for duration is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #90,647 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Indicateur boursier permettant à un investisseur d'évaluer la sensibilité d'une obligation aux variations des taux d'intérêt.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for duration, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is duration, spelled D-U-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Indicateur boursier permettant à un investisseur d'évaluer la sensibilité d'une obligation aux variations des taux d'intérêt.
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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Using “duration”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-U-R-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.