majesté
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,049
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
majesté is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grandeur suprême ; caractère auguste qui imprime le respect. Pronounced \ma.ʒɛs.te\. It ranks #5,049 in French word frequency. Often confused with majeure and modeste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majesté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for majesté is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒɛs.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,049 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for majesté, with forms such as "amjesté", "maejsté", and "majessté". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "majeure", "modeste", "manette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 majesté, spelled M-A-J-E-S-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grandeur suprême ; caractère auguste qui imprime le respect.
- 2Air de grandeur propre à inspirer de l’admiration, du respect.
- 3Titre que l’on donne aux empereurs, aux rois, aux impératrices, aux reines.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amjesté,maejsté,majessté,majeste,majestté,majesét,majetsé,majjesté,majseté,mjaesté,mmajesté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for majesté
Misspelling Variants of "majesté"
Frequency rank: #5,049 in French
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Nearby French words
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