majordome
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,392
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
majordome is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chef du service intérieur de la maison d’un souverain. Pronounced \ma.ʒɔʁ.dɔm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majordome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒɔʁ.dɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for majordome is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒɔʁ.dɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,392 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for majordome, with forms such as "amjordome", "majjordome", and "majodrome". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 majordome, spelled M-A-J-O-R-D-O-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chef du service intérieur de la maison d’un souverain.
- 2Personne qui encadre le personnel de service d'une maison.
- 3Valet de nuit.
- 4Membre du personnel chargé de l’entretien et des services d’un site commercial.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amjordome,majjordome,majodrome,majorddome,majordmoe,majordoem,majordomme,majorodme,majorrdome,majrodome,maojrdome,mjaordome,mmajordome
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Misspelling Variants of "majordome"
Frequency rank: #25,392 in French
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Nearby French words
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