durar
/du.ˈɾaɾ/
The verdict
“durar” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #5,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,293
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,193
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - não se gastar;
Corpus desk
Index PT-durar · durar · Portuguese
durar · rank #5,293 · 6 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,293
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,193
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigido
Nearest frequency peer: dirigido (-2 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “durar”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- causado
causado
94,716 corpus weight
- cometer
cometer
94,715 corpus weight
- depósito
depósito
94,712 corpus weight
- dirigido
dirigido
94,710 corpus weight
- durar
durar
94,708 corpus weight
- Filipinas
Filipinas
94,699 corpus weight
What this shows “durar” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | durar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /du.ˈɾaɾ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “durar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around durar (IPA /du.ˈɾaɾ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,293 among 1,193 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for durar, with forms such as "ddurar", "druar", and "duarr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "duro", "dar", "dua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is durar, spelled D-U-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1não se gastar;
- 2resistir;
- 3conservar-se no mesmo estado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddurar
- druar
- duarr
- durarr
- durrar
- udrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of durar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "durar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).