majordomo
\ˌmeɪ.dʒɚˈdoʊ.moʊ\
The verdict
“majordomo” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Majordome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-majordomo · majordomo · French
majordomo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majordomo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌmeɪ.dʒɚˈdoʊ.moʊ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « majordomo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
majordomo is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˌmeɪ.dʒɚˈdoʊ.moʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for majordomo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is majordomo, spelled M-A-J-O-R-D-O-M-O.
Definition
- 1Majordome.
- 2Chef d’équipe, organisateur, personne aux commandes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how majordomo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The United Nation’s climate majordomo -- tasked with herding 192 nations toward a do-or-die deal by year’s end -- does not have the power to impose an agreement on how to curb greenhouse gases and cope with its consequences.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.