gamme majeure
The verdict
“gamme majeure” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gamme composée de huit notes conjointes, donc de sept intervalles, dont cinq valent un ton et deux un demi-ton de la gamme tempérée. On l'appelle également gamme naturelle ou mode ionien des modes ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamme majeure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡam ma.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gamme majeure” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gamme majeure is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡam ma.ʒœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gamme composée de huit notes conjointes, donc de sept intervalles, dont cinq valent un ton et deux un demi-ton de la gamme tempérée. On l'appelle également gamme naturelle ou mode ionien des modes ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for gamme majeure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gamme majeure, spelled G-A-M-M-E- -M-A-J-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gamme composée de huit notes conjointes, donc de sept intervalles, dont cinq valent un ton et deux un demi-ton de la gamme tempérée. On l'appelle également gamme naturelle ou mode ionien des modes grégoriens, également appelés « modes grecs » médiévaux.
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Using “gamme majeure”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-M-M-E- -M-A-J-E-U-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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