maja
The verdict
“maja” is uncommon French (frequency #59,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui, dans l’Espagne de la seconde moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle, s’habille simplement, comme une femme du peuple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maja · maja · French
maja · rank #59,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,419
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH magasinier
Nearest frequency peer: magasinier (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- machinations
machinations
40,585 corpus weight
- Maclou
Maclou
40,584 corpus weight
- magasinier
magasinier
40,583 corpus weight
- maja
maja
40,582 corpus weight
- malencontre…
malencontreux
40,581 corpus weight
- malmenés
malmenés
40,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maja is uncommon French at frequency #59,419 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for maja in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is maja, spelled M-A-J-A.
Definition
- 1Femme qui, dans l’Espagne de la seconde moitié du XVIIIᵉ siècle, s’habille simplement, comme une femme du peuple.
- 2Par analogie avec le célébrissime tableau de Goya, pendant déshabillé du portrait de la duchesse d’Albe en maja (sens 1), femme offerte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un groupe d’hommes et de femmes entoure et applaudit une maja dansant le vito.
Un majo et une maja, se faisant vis-à-vis, dansent, à grand renfort de castagnettes et de coups de reins, un voluptueux fandango ou un bolero.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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