dure
\dyʁ\
The verdict
“dure” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,912. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,912
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme pleine de dureté, insensible ou très sévère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dure · dure · French
dure · rank #1,912 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,912
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH difficultés
Nearest frequency peer: difficultés (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dure”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- croix
croix
98,093 corpus weight
- description
description
98,092 corpus weight
- devraient
devraient
98,091 corpus weight
- difficultés
difficultés
98,090 corpus weight
- dure
dure
98,089 corpus weight
- efficace
efficace
98,087 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dure” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “dure” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around dure (IPA \dyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,912 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for dure, with forms such as "ddure", "drue", and "duer". 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", "durs", "duty", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dure, spelled D-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femme pleine de dureté, insensible ou très sévère.
- 2Surface ferme du sol ; terre non aménagement ou plancher, à l’intérieur.
- 3Agression à main armée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous organiserons des armées citoyennes, nous apprendrons l’exercice à nos petits garçons, nous trouverons bon que nos jeunes gens soient tous soldats au besoin, qu’ils sachent faire des étapes et coucher sur la dure, obéir et commander.
Pour remèdier à cette incommodité & rendre mon coucher moins dure, je m'aviſai de caſſer une grande quantité de branches d'Ifs, dont les Forêts du Canada ſont remplies & j'en fis un lit; ce qui apprêtoit à rire à mes Sauvages qui me regardoient,en me diſant d'un ton badin: Que les François ſont comme des Femmes qui ne peuvent coucher ſur la Dure.,
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddure
- drue
- duer
- durre
- udre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dure - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dure", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "dure". Here's where to go from here.
- "dure" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "dus". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #1,912 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.