majeure

/\ma.ʒœʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,471

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

10

similar word pairs

majeure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Attribut de la conclusion, qui a plus d'extension que le sujet. Pronounced \ma.ʒœʁ\. It ranks #3,471 in French word frequency. Often confused with meure and maure.

Key facts for majeure
PropertyValue
Headwordmajeure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʒœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,471
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of majeure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for majeure is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,471 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for majeure, with forms such as "amjeure", "maejure", and "majerue". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "meure", "maure", "mature", 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 majeure, spelled M-A-J-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attribut de la conclusion, qui a plus d'extension que le sujet.
  2. 2
    Proposition majeure, première des prémisses, formée du terme majeur de la conclusion et du terme moyen.
  3. 3
    Compagnie majeure.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amjeure,maejure,majerue,majeuer,majeurre,majjeure,majuere,mjaeure,mmajeure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for majeure

Misspelling Variants of "majeure"

amjeure7maejure7majerue7majeuer7majeurre8majjeure8majuere7mjaeure7
Misspelling Variants of "majeure"

Frequency rank: #3,471 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "majeure"?
"majeure" is spelled M-A-J-E-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒœʁ\.
What does "majeure" mean?
As a noun, "majeure" means: Attribut de la conclusion, qui a plus d'extension que le sujet.
What words are commonly confused with "majeure"?
"majeure" is commonly confused with "meure", "maure", "mature". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "majeure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "majeure" is \ma.ʒœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "majeure" come from?
"majeure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.