majorer

\ma.ʒɔ.ʁe\

/\ma.ʒɔ.ʁe\/ verb

The verdict

“majorer” is uncommon French (frequency #64,589 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,589
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner une plus grande valeur à quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-majorer · majorer · French

majorer · rank #64,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,589
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mahamadou

Nearest frequency peer: Mahamadou (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « majorer »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « majorer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for majorer
PropertyValue
Headwordmajorer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ma.ʒɔ.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#64,589
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « majorer » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.majorertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Mahamadou » (#64,588), « malka » (#64,590), « Magnet » (#64,587). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « majorer » est au #64,589. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

majorer is uncommon French at frequency #64,589 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ma.ʒɔ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

majorer has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is majorer, spelled M-A-J-O-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Donner une plus grande valeur à quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Augmenter le prix d’un produit, d’une denrée.
  3. 3
    Rendre plus grand, accroître.
  4. 4
    Donner un majorant de.
  5. 5
    Être le premier de sa classe, de sa promotion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Vous avez majoré vos prix.
  2. Les difficultés économiques résultant de la Grande Guerre ont fait majorer bien des produits.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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 "majorer"?
"majorer" is spelled M-A-J-O-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁe\.
What does "majorer" mean?
As a verb, "majorer" means: Donner une plus grande valeur à quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "majorer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "majorer" is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "majorer" come from?
"majorer" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list