majorettes
\ma.ʒɔ.ʁɛt\
The verdict
“majorettes” is uncommon French (frequency #84,994 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,994
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de majorette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-majorettes · majorettes · French
majorettes · rank #84,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,994
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maids
Nearest frequency peer: maids (-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 « majorettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magnets
magnets
15,010 corpus weight
- magouilleurs
magouilleurs
15,009 corpus weight
- maids
maids
15,008 corpus weight
- majorettes
majorettes
15,007 corpus weight
- mancuniens
mancuniens
15,006 corpus weight
- mandater
mandater
15,005 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « majorettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majorettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒɔ.ʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « majorettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
majorettes is uncommon French at frequency #84,994 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʒɔ.ʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de majorette.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for majorettes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is majorettes, spelled M-A-J-O-R-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de majorette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how majorettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tambours se mirent à rouler et les majorettes se déplacèrent.
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.
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