duroc
\dy.ʁɔk\
The verdict
“duroc” is uncommon French (frequency #69,771 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,771
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de grands porcs, originaires des États-Unis, à robe rouge (dorée à rouge-brique).
Corpus desk
Index FR-duroc · duroc · French
duroc · rank #69,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,771
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dunning
Nearest frequency peer: Dunning (-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 « duroc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dua
dua
30,234 corpus weight
- dubus
dubus
30,233 corpus weight
- Dunning
Dunning
30,231 corpus weight
- duroc
duroc
30,230 corpus weight
- dysfonction…
dysfonctionnelle
30,228 corpus weight
- débordées
débordées
30,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duroc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duroc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁɔk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duroc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duroc is uncommon French at frequency #69,771 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.ʁɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de grands porcs, originaires des États-Unis, à robe rouge (dorée à rouge-brique).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duroc, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is duroc, spelled D-U-R-O-C.
Definition
- 1Race de grands porcs, originaires des États-Unis, à robe rouge (dorée à rouge-brique).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how duroc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une étiquette rouge certifie des cochons eux aussi nourris de glands et d’herbes, mais dont le père est un porc blanc (généralement duroc) ou à moitié ibérique.
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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