Duris
\dy.ʁis\
The verdict
“Duris” is uncommon French (frequency #70,554 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,554
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duris · Duris · French
Duris · rank #70,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,554
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dump
Nearest frequency peer: dump (-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 « Duris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dubitative
dubitative
29,450 corpus weight
- Dumesnil
Dumesnil
29,449 corpus weight
- dump
dump
29,448 corpus weight
- Duris
Duris
29,447 corpus weight
- durèrent
durèrent
29,446 corpus weight
- Duvernay
Duvernay
29,445 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duris is uncommon French at frequency #70,554 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.ʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Duris in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Duris, spelled D-U-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Duris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On pourrait presque croire qu’Alexandre Dumas a écrit Les Trois Mousquetaires pour Vincent Cassel (Athos), François Civil (D’Artagnan), Pio Marmaï (Porthos) et Romain Duris (Aramis).
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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