DuartevsduretéWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Duarte is a name, dureté is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Duarte” is a name and “dureté” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,991
“Duarte” frequency rank
#18,464
“dureté” frequency rank
63455
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Duarte dureté
Definition Nom de famille. Qualité de ce qui est dur.

Letter map: Duarte vs dureté

Shared letters muted; letters that set Duarte and dureté apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Duarte (CVVCCV) and dureté (CVCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
Duarte
6 ch
dureté

Grammar separator: Duarte vs dureté

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Duarte is aname and duretéanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Duarte is recorded at frequency rank #44,991, classified as aname. dureté is at rank #18,464, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dyʁ.te\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 63455, this pair ranks #81,870 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Duarte vs dureté

Shared letters: dertu. Private to "Duarte": a. Private to "dureté": é.

"Duarte" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV  ·  "dureté" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Duarte ← daurte · dduarte · duaret · duarrte · duartte · duatre · durate · udarte

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Duarte" for "dureté" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Duarte" is a name and "dureté" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Duarte" vs "dureté" - which ranks higher?
"dureté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,464 in our French list, against #44,991 for "Duarte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Duarte" and "dureté". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Duarte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dureté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #81,870 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Duarte" and "dureté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dart vs Duarte". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #81,870 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list