duration
\dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“duration” is uncommon French (frequency #90,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,647
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indicateur boursier permettant à un investisseur d'évaluer la sensibilité d'une obligation aux variations des taux d'intérêt.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duration · duration · French
duration · rank #90,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,647
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dunkirk
Nearest frequency peer: Dunkirk (-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 « duration »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drapiers
drapiers
9,358 corpus weight
- DTA
DTA
9,357 corpus weight
- Dunkirk
Dunkirk
9,355 corpus weight
- duration
duration
9,354 corpus weight
- durex
durex
9,353 corpus weight
- débrider
débrider
9,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duration » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « duration » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duration is uncommon French at frequency #90,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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