major general
"major-general" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“major general” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | major general |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “major general” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
major general is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for major general, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is major general, spelled M-A-J-O-R- -G-E-N-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “major general”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-A-J-O-R- -G-E-N-E-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.