duro
\du.ʁo\
The verdict
“duro” is uncommon French (frequency #92,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,647
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne monnaie espagnole, valant cinq pesetas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duro · duro · French
duro · rank #92,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,647
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dumitru
Nearest frequency peer: Dumitru (-2 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 « duro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drums
drums
7,360 corpus weight
- ducat
ducat
7,358 corpus weight
- duez
duez
7,357 corpus weight
- Dumitru
Dumitru
7,356 corpus weight
- duro
duro
7,354 corpus weight
- Durst
Durst
7,352 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duro is uncommon French at frequency #92,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne monnaie espagnole, valant cinq pesetas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duro, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is duro, spelled D-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1Ancienne monnaie espagnole, valant cinq pesetas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how duro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En exhibant la sacro-sainte piécette, ou le rayonnant duro en cas d’extrêmes difficultés, on finit toujours bien par forcer la consigne.
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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