duret
\dy.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“duret” is uncommon French (frequency #57,882 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,882
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un peu dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duret · duret · French
duret · rank #57,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,882
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH droitière
Nearest frequency peer: droitière (-2 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 « duret »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doudous
doudous
42,123 corpus weight
- draconiennes
draconiennes
42,122 corpus weight
- droitière
droitière
42,121 corpus weight
- duret
duret
42,119 corpus weight
- dystopique
dystopique
42,117 corpus weight
- débarquait
débarquait
42,116 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duret » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dy.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duret » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duret is uncommon French at frequency #57,882 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dy.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un peu dur.".
duret has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is duret, spelled D-U-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Un peu dur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duret appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chaise mal faite et durette.
Arbre de 10 à 12 mètres de hauteur, dont le bois est très fin, très duret se conserve longtemps.
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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