majoration

\ma.ʒɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\

/\ma.ʒɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“majoration” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,492
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de majorer ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-majoration · majoration · French

majoration · rank #20,492 · 14 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,492
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mage

Nearest frequency peer: mage (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « majoration »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « majoration » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

majoration vs maturation
80% similar
majoration vs macération
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for majoration
PropertyValue
Headwordmajoration
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʒɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#20,492
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « majoration »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.majorationse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mage » (#20,491), « manuellement » (#20,493), « maestro » (#20,490). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « majoration » est au #20,492. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around majoration (IPA \ma.ʒɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,492 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for majoration, with forms such as "amjoration", "majjoration", and "majoartion". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "maturation", "macération", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is majoration, spelled M-A-J-O-R-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de majorer ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Augmentation d’un montant, d’un prix.
  3. 3
    Action d’établir une borne supérieure pour une quantité, valeur obtenue comme borne supérieure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how majoration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tout d’abord, la majoration des prix de la tonne de cristal produite par la Verrerie Cristallerie d’Arques appraraît encore plus lissée et les deux chocs pétroliers ne sont absolument pas décélables sur ce graphique.
  2. La majoration d’un mémoire d’entrepreneur.

This word in other languages

markup(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amjoration
  • majjoration
  • majoartion
  • majoraiton
  • majoratino
  • majorationn
  • majoratoin
  • majorattion
  • majorration
  • majortaion
  • majroation
  • maojration
  • mjaoration
  • mmajoration

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of majoration - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amjoration2majjoration1majoartion2majoraiton2majoratino2majorationn1majoratoin2majorattion1
Edit distance from "majoration"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "majoration"?
"majoration" is spelled M-A-J-O-R-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
What does "majoration" mean?
As a noun, "majoration" means: Action de majorer ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "majoration"?
"majoration" is commonly confused with "maturation", "macération". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "majoration"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "majoration" is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "majoration" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "majoration", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

indexation14 variantsparchemin14 variantsphosphore14 variantshollandaise14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list