majeur
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,785
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
majeur is anFrenchadj. It means: Très grand ; très important. Pronounced \ma.ʒœʁ\. It ranks #2,785 in French word frequency. Often confused with maur and meur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ma.ʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for majeur is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,785 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for majeur, with forms such as "amjeur", "maejur", and "majeru". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "maur", "meur", "major", 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 majeur, spelled M-A-J-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Très grand ; très important.
- 2Qui a atteint la majorité légale, et qui peut donc jouir de ses droits civiques et qui est responsable devant la loi.
- 3Gamme ou tonalité occidentale diatonique dans laquelle les demi-tons sont placés entre les degrés III-IV et VII-VIII.
- 4Intervalle, hors quarte, quinte et octave, que l'on obtient dans une gamme majeure entre la tonique et une autre note.
- 5Attribut de la conclusion, qui a plus d’extension que le sujet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amjeur,maejur,majeru,majeurr,majjeur,majuer,mjaeur,mmajeur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for majeur
Misspelling Variants of "majeur"
Frequency rank: #2,785 in French
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