majeur protégé
\ma.ʒœʁ pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
The verdict
“majeur protégé” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Personne physique de plus de 18 ans dont les facultés sont altérées et qui fait l’objet d’une protection juridique afin que ses intérêts soient mieux défendus par l’assistance d’un tiers.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majeur protégé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒœʁ pʁɔ.te.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “majeur protégé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for majeur protégé is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒœʁ pʁɔ.te.ʒe\. 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: "Personne physique de plus de 18 ans dont les facultés sont altérées et qui fait l’objet d’une protection juridique afin que ses intérêts soient mieux défendus par l’assistance d’un tiers.".
No misspelling variants are generated for majeur protégé 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 majeur protégé, spelled M-A-J-E-U-R- -P-R-O-T-É-G-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne physique de plus de 18 ans dont les facultés sont altérées et qui fait l’objet d’une protection juridique afin que ses intérêts soient mieux défendus par l’assistance d’un tiers.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-J-E-U-R- -P-R-O-T-É-G-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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