dureté
\dyʁ.te\
The verdict
“dureté” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,464
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est dur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durete · dureté · French
dureté · rank #18,464 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,464
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH doutais
Nearest frequency peer: doutais (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dureté”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- disperser
disperser
81,540 corpus weight
- dora
dora
81,539 corpus weight
- doutais
doutais
81,538 corpus weight
- dureté
dureté
81,537 corpus weight
- déboucher
déboucher
81,536 corpus weight
- décidera
décidera
81,535 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dureté” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dureté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dyʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dureté” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dureté (IPA \dyʁ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,464 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dureté, with forms such as "ddureté", "drueté", and "duerté". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "duvet", "dure", "durée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dureté, spelled D-U-R-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est dur.
- 2Opposition à la qualité agréable de ce qui est tendre, mou, doux.
- 3Défaut de ce qui est rude et désagréable à l’oreille.
- 4Ce qui est marqué trop fortement, ou de ce qui a une grande raideur.
- 5Rudesse, insensibilité, inhumanité, extrême sévérité, en parlant de personnes ou de leurs dehors, de leurs manières, de leurs discours.
- 6Paroles dures et offensantes.
- 7Événement ou situation difficile à traverser.
- 8Qualité des minéraux permettant d’apprécier leur résistance à être entamés par l'abrasion ou la rayure.
- 9Capacité d’un matériau (en général un métal) à résister à la déformation ou à la pénétration d'un corps plus dur.
- 10Caractéristique organoleptique d'un aliment qui conditionne les modifications de structure au cours de la mastication ou de la cuisson
- 11Indice qui indique la minéralisation de l’eau par les ions calcium et magnésium des sels minéraux dissous.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddureté
- drueté
- duerté
- durete
- duretté
- dureét
- durreté
- durteé
- udreté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dureté - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dureté", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.