majesté
\ma.ʒɛs.te\
The verdict
“majesté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,049. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,049
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grandeur suprême ; caractère auguste qui imprime le respect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-majeste · majesté · French
majesté · rank #5,049 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,049
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Lucas
Nearest frequency peer: Lucas (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « majesté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- laver
laver
94,954 corpus weight
- Lucas
Lucas
94,953 corpus weight
- majesté
majesté
94,952 corpus weight
- maritimes
maritimes
94,951 corpus weight
- musulmane
musulmane
94,950 corpus weight
- mémoires
mémoires
94,949 corpus weight
What this shows « majesté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « majesté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around majesté (IPA \ma.ʒɛs.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,049 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for majesté, with forms such as "amjesté", "maejsté", and "majessté". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "majeure", "modeste", "manette", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is majesté, spelled M-A-J-E-S-T-É.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how majesté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce discours, dans sa partie pathétique, déborde, du reste, de majesté, de douleurs, d’exclamations, d’éplorations sublimes.
L’administration romaine était extrêmement dure pour […] tout accusé qui bravait sa majesté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amjesté
- maejsté
- majessté
- majeste
- majestté
- majesét
- majetsé
- majjesté
- majseté
- mjaesté
- mmajesté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of majesté - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "majesté", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).