durif
\dy.ʁif\
The verdict
“durif” is uncommon French (frequency #69,007 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,007
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cépage résistant au mildiou et donnant un raisin noir. Il n'est plus cultivé en France. C'est une espèce issue du croisement entre la syrah et le peloursin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-durif · durif · French
durif · rank #69,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,007
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Durango
Nearest frequency peer: Durango (-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 « durif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Duluth
Duluth
30,997 corpus weight
- duomo
duomo
30,996 corpus weight
- Durango
Durango
30,995 corpus weight
- durif
durif
30,994 corpus weight
- débarcadère
débarcadère
30,992 corpus weight
- débarrassez
débarrassez
30,991 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « durif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁif\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « durif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
durif is uncommon French at frequency #69,007 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.ʁif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cépage résistant au mildiou et donnant un raisin noir. Il n'est plus cultivé en France. C'est une espèce issue du croisement entre la syrah et le peloursin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for durif in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is durif, spelled D-U-R-I-F.
Definition
- 1Cépage résistant au mildiou et donnant un raisin noir. Il n'est plus cultivé en France. C'est une espèce issue du croisement entre la syrah et le peloursin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how durif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une double erreur, le durif n’a rien de commun avec la syrah vraie, ni au point ampélographique ni au point de vue cultural.
Synonyms
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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