duron
\dy.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“duron” is uncommon French (frequency #89,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,625
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à la pêche de vigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duron · duron · French
duron · rank #89,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,625
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dupree
Nearest frequency peer: Dupree (-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 « duron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dullin
Dullin
10,379 corpus weight
- Dumais
Dumais
10,378 corpus weight
- Dupree
Dupree
10,377 corpus weight
- duron
duron
10,376 corpus weight
- débarrassait
débarrassait
10,375 corpus weight
- débauchée
débauchée
10,374 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duron is uncommon French at frequency #89,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom donné à la pêche de vigne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for duron in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is duron, spelled D-U-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à la pêche de vigne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how duron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] cette même lumière exaspérée d’onze heures, qui mûrissait tôt les pommes, les fruits des ronces, et ces pêches de vigne qu’on appelle, pour cause, des durons.
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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