durian
\dy.ʁjɑ̃\
The verdict
“durian” is uncommon French (frequency #95,818 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,818
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre tropical de la famille des Malvaceae, qui se trouve en Asie du Sud-Est et qui produit des fruits comestibles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durian · durian · French
durian · rank #95,818 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,818
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dupliqué
Nearest frequency peer: dupliqué (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « durian »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drummer
drummer
4,185 corpus weight
- dupliqué
dupliqué
4,184 corpus weight
- durian
durian
4,183 corpus weight
- débitant
débitant
4,182 corpus weight
- débitent
débitent
4,181 corpus weight
- décaissement
décaissement
4,180 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « durian » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durian |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « durian » en français
Rare enough to double-check
durian is uncommon French at frequency #95,818 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.ʁjɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for durian, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 durian, spelled D-U-R-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Arbre tropical de la famille des Malvaceae, qui se trouve en Asie du Sud-Est et qui produit des fruits comestibles.
- 2Fruit de cet arbre, comme un gros ovoïde de 30 cm de longueur avec une carapace de grosses épines, connu pour son goût et son odeur très particulière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how durian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le marché embaumait des odeurs du soir : au parfum sucré des goyaves se mêlaient les effluves de durians bien mûrs, alors que le gras des viandes qu’on faisait griller s’échappait en fumets alléchants.
On trouve le durian ou durion en Asie, c’est un fruit qui a la particularité… de sentir très mauvais !
This word in other languages
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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