durasvsduréesConfusable pair

Which to use

“duras” and “durées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#23,840
“duras” frequency rank
#20,424
“durées” frequency rank
44264
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature duras durées
Definition Cépage donnant du raisin à petits grains noirs. Il est essentiellement cultivé dans la région de Gaillac. Pluriel de durée.

Where the eye mixes duras and durées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. duras runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against durées's 6 (CVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
duras
6 ch
durées

Look-alike desk: duras vs durées

A purely visual mix-up. duras (\dy.ʁa\) and durées (\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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44264, 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\. durées is at rank #20,424, 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 44264, this pair ranks #211,789 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of duras vs durées

Shared letters: drsu. Private to "duras": a. Private to "durées": eé.

"duras" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "durées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • duras ← dduras · druas · duars · durass · durras · dursa · udras

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "duras" and "durées" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\dy.ʁa\ versus \dy.ʁe\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "duras" vs "durées" - which ranks higher?
"durées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,424 in our French list, against #23,840 for "duras". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "duras" and "durées" 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 "durées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #211,789 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "duras" and "durées" 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 #211,789 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