durent

Name: durent, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\dyʁ\

/\dyʁ\/ verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“durent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,816
frequency rank, French: 5,307
“D” headwords: 9
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe devoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-durent · durent · French

durent · rank #9,816 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #9,816
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 9 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,307
PHOTO-FINISH duché

Nearest frequency peer: duché (-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.

Deschamps

90,188
Diana

90,187
duché

90,186
durent

90,185
dus

90,184
délits

90,183

What this shows « durent » 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).

durent vs durer

67% similar

durent vs dures

67% similar

durent vs duvet

67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for durent
Property	Value
Headword	durent
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
IPA	\dyʁ\
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#9,816
Misspellings tracked	9
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « durent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.durentse place ici:

#9,816

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « duché » (#9,815), « dus » (#9,817), « Diana » (#9,814). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « durent » est au #9,816. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around durent (IPA \dyʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,816 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe devoir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for durent, with forms such as "ddurent", "druent", and "duernt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "durer", "dures", "duvet", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is durent, spelled D-U-R-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe devoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how durent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Et c’est pourquoi des centaines de personnes, non qualifiées pour être considérées comme des religieux, durent, fin septembre 1925, se désenturbanner.
Depuis des redans que les Noirs n’avaient pas prévus, les balles se mirent à pleuvoir, meurtrières, et ils durent battre en retraite.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ddurent
druent
duernt
durennt
durentt
duretn
durnet
durrent
udrent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of durent - 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.

Edit distance from "durent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "durent"?

"durent" is spelled D-U-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dyʁ\.

What does "durent" mean?

As a verb, "durent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe devoir.

What words are commonly confused with "durent"?

"durent" is commonly confused with "durer", "dures", "duvet". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "durent"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "durent" is \dyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "durent" come from?

"durent" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "durent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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