# majority

> English word · Noun · IPA /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/ · frequency rank #1,227

## Definitions
1. More than half (50%) of some group.
2. 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.
3. Legal adulthood, age of majority.
4. The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major.
5. Ancestors; ancestry.

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

## Easily confused with
- **majorly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/majority-vs-majorly)
- **minority** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/majority-vs-minority)
- **maturity** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/majority-vs-maturity)

## Common misspellings (12)
`amjority`, `majjority`, `majoirty`, `majoritty`, `majorityy`, `majoriyt`, `majorrity`, `majortiy`, `majroity`, `maojrity`, `mjaority`, `mmajority`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/majority