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majority

/məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪti/noun

majority is spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is marjority: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Majority is a noun meaning “More than half (50%) of some group”. The plural of majority is majorities.

How many letters and syllables are in majority?

Letters8: M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing87 times per million words; the 1,223rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, marjority, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell majority?

Majority is spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for majority in either form.

majoritythe right spelling1,200 searches a month
marjorityan extra r20 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is majority?

Majority appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce majority?

  • UK /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/
  • US /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪti/
  • US /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪti/

Majority has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-majority.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of majority

  • majorities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does majority mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    More than half (50%) of some group.

    The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.

  2. 2

    Any share or fraction that is bigger than any one of its counterpart shares or fractions (of the same whole).

  3. 3

    In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined.

    The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.

  4. 4

    datedLegal adulthood, age of majority.

    By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.

  5. 5

    UKThe office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.

    On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.

  6. 6

    Ancestors; ancestry.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Majority in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmajorité (more than half)
GermanMehrheit, Majorität (more than half), Erwachsenenalter (legal adulthood)
Portuguesemaioria (more than half), maioridade (legal adulthood)
Spanishmayoría (more than half), mayoría de edad (legal adulthood)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does majority come from?

From Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin maiōritātem, accusative of Latin maiōritās, from Latin maior (“greater”). Morphologically major + -ity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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