The present invention provides flux cored wire for welding duplex stainless steel which refines the solidified crystal grains for obtaining weld metal superior in toughness and ductility, characterized by containing, as the chemical ingredients included in the steel sheath and flux, by mass % with respect to the mass of the wire as a whole, C: 0.001 to 0.1%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 2.0 to 6.0%, Cr: 17.0 to 27.0%, Ni: 1.0 to 10.0%, Mo: 0.1 to 3.0%, Al: 0.002 to 0.05%, Mg: 0.0005 to 0.01%, Ti: 0.001 to 0.5%, and N: 0.10 to 0.30%, further limiting P to 0.03% or less and S to 0.01% or less, satisfying 0.73×Cr equivalents−Ni equivalents≧4.0 and Ti (mass %)×N (mass %)≧0.0004, and having a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities.