duru
\du.ɾu\
The verdict
“duru” is uncommon French (frequency #97,880 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,880
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clair, transparent (en parlant de l’eau, du cristal…).
Corpus desk
Index FR-duru · duru · French
duru · rank #97,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,880
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dupire
Nearest frequency peer: Dupire (-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 « duru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dri
dri
2,124 corpus weight
- Dupire
Dupire
2,122 corpus weight
- duru
duru
2,121 corpus weight
- dyn
dyn
2,120 corpus weight
- débloques
débloques
2,119 corpus weight
- débloquez
débloquez
2,118 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \du.ɾu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duru is uncommon French at frequency #97,880 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \du.ɾu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duru, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is duru, spelled D-U-R-U.
Definition
- 1Clair, transparent (en parlant de l’eau, du cristal…).
- 2Clair, non brouillé (en parlant du teint).
- 3Clair, pur (en parlant d’un discours, d’un langage, d’un style).
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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