dures
\dyʁ\
The verdict
“dures” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,690. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,690
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dures · dures · French
dures · rank #10,690 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,690
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH documentaires
Nearest frequency peer: documentaires (-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 « dures »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dimanches
dimanches
89,314 corpus weight
- directes
directes
89,313 corpus weight
- documentair…
documentaires
89,312 corpus weight
- dures
dures
89,311 corpus weight
- défaire
défaire
89,310 corpus weight
- démissionne
démissionne
89,309 corpus weight
What this shows « dures » 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 | dures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dyʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dures »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around dures (IPA \dyʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,690 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de dur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for dures, with forms such as "ddures", "drues", and "duers". 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", "duvet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dures, spelled D-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de dur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Béatrix trouva les sables jolis ; elle aperçut alors ces petites plantes dures à fleurs roses qui y croissent, elle en cueillit plusieurs auxquelles elle joignit l’œillet des Chartreux qui se trouve également dans ces sables arides et les partagea d’une façon significative avec Calyste, pour qui ces fleurs et ces feuillages devaient être une éternelle, un…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddures
- drues
- duers
- duress
- durres
- durse
- udres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dures - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).