dureté
French, noun/dyʁ.te/
dureté is spelled D-U-R-E-T-É (6 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dureté is a French feminine noun meaning “hardness, especially of water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est dur”.
What does dureté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehardness, especially of water
- 2
feminineharshness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est dur. 2. Opposition à la qualité agréable de ce qui est tendre, mou, doux. 3. Défaut de ce qui est rude et désagréable à l’oreille. 4. Ce qui est marqué trop fortement, ou de ce qui a une grande raideur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dureté
- duretés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dureté?
- /dyʁ.te/
- \dyʁ.te\
- \d͡zʏʁ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dureté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dureté in French?
dureté appears 2.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).