durif

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for durif is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dy.ʁif\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,007 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is durif, spelled D-U-R-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.