majeurs

/\ma.ʒœʁ\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,889

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

majeurs is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de majeur. Pronounced \ma.ʒœʁ\. It ranks #5,889 in French word frequency. Often confused with meurs and majors.

Key facts for majeurs
PropertyValue
Headwordmajeurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ma.ʒœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,889
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for majeurs is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,889 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de majeur.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for majeurs, with forms such as "amjeurs", "maejurs", and "majerus". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "meurs", "majors", "mayeur", 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 majeurs, spelled M-A-J-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de majeur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amjeurs,maejurs,majerus,majeurrs,majeurss,majeusr,majjeurs,majuers,mjaeurs,mmajeurs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for majeurs

Misspelling Variants of "majeurs"

amjeurs7maejurs7majerus7majeurrs8majeurss8majeusr7majjeurs8majuers7
Misspelling Variants of "majeurs"

Frequency rank: #5,889 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "majeurs"?
"majeurs" is spelled M-A-J-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒœʁ\.
What does "majeurs" mean?
As an adj, "majeurs" means: Masculin pluriel de majeur.
What words are commonly confused with "majeurs"?
"majeurs" is commonly confused with "meurs", "majors", "mayeur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "majeurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "majeurs" is \ma.ʒœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "majeurs" come from?
"majeurs" 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.