major
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,340
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
major is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grade le plus élevé des sous-officiers, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, l’aspirant, et son subordonné, l’adjudant-chef (armée de terre, armée de l’air, gendarmerie nationale) ou le maître p... Pronounced \ma.ʒɔʁ\. It ranks #3,340 in French word frequency. Often confused with mar and malo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | major |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for major is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,340 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for major, with forms such as "amjor", "majjor", and "majorr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mar", "malo", "mayo", 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 major, spelled M-A-J-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grade le plus élevé des sous-officiers, situé entre son supérieur hiérarchique, l’aspirant, et son subordonné, l’adjudant-chef (armée de terre, armée de l’air, gendarmerie nationale) ou le maître principal (Marine nationale). Le code OTAN : OR-9.
- 2Officier chargé de diriger et surveiller l’administration et la comptabilité de son unité, la constitution et la conservation de ses archives.
- 3Commandant (Officier du grade supérieur au capitaine).
- 4Médecin militaire.
- 5Premier d’une promotion.
- 6Variante de mayor.
- 7Grade d’officier des Forces armées canadiennes, au-dessus du capitaine et au-dessous du lieutenant-colonel. Le code OTAN : OF-3.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amjor,majjor,majorr,majro,maojr,mjaor,mmajor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "major"
Frequency rank: #3,340 in French
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