Which to use
“duras” and “durée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,840
- “duras” frequency rank
- #1,025
- “durée” frequency rank
- 24865
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | duras | durée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Cépage donnant du raisin à petits grains noirs. Il est essentiellement cultivé dans la région de Gaillac. | Espace de temps pendant lequel une chose dure. |
Where the eye mixes duras and durée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: duras vs durée
A purely visual mix-up. duras (\dy.ʁa\) and durée (\dy.ʁe\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24865, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
duras is recorded at frequency rank #23,840, classified as anoun, pronounced \dy.ʁa\. durée is at rank #1,025, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dy.ʁe\.
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 24865, this pair ranks #344,131 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of duras vs durée
Shared letters: dru. Private to "duras": as. Private to "durée": eé.
"duras" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "durée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- duras ← dduras · druas · duars · durass · durras · dursa · udras
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "duras" for "durée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "duras" or "durée"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "duras" and "durée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "duras" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "durée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #344,131 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "duras" and "durée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dray vs duras". 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 #344,131 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.