durement
\dyʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“durement” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,361. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,361
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière dure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durement · durement · French
durement · rank #12,361 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,361
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Durand
Nearest frequency peer: Durand (-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 « durement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donation
donation
87,643 corpus weight
- draguer
draguer
87,642 corpus weight
- Durand
Durand
87,641 corpus weight
- durement
durement
87,640 corpus weight
- débiles
débiles
87,639 corpus weight
- déclencheme…
déclenchement
87,637 corpus weight
What this shows « durement » 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 | durement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dyʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « durement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around durement (IPA \dyʁ.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #12,361 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "D’une manière dure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for durement, with forms such as "ddurement", "druement", and "duerment". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "durent", "dureront", "dément", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is durement, spelled D-U-R-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière dure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour, en bateau, voulant manier la godille à grand renflement de biceps, il tombait dans la Loire ; une autre fois, qu’il caracolait à la portière du landau, sa bête le serrait si durement contre la roue, qu’on était obligé de le garder et cataplasmer à la chambre plusieurs jours.
La wilaya (province) d’El Tarf à l’extrême est du pays (700 km à l’est d'Alger) a été la plus durement touchée, avec au moins 30 morts dont 11 enfants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddurement
- druement
- duerment
- dureemnt
- duremennt
- durementt
- duremetn
- duremment
- duremnet
- durmeent
- durrement
- udrement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of durement - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).