majoritaire

\ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\

/\ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“majoritaire” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,411
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le plus répandu.

Corpus desk

Index FR-majoritaire · majoritaire · French

majoritaire · rank #6,411 · 15 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,411
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH légion

Nearest frequency peer: légion (-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 « majoritaire »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « majoritaire » 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).

majoritaire vs minoritaire
82% similar
majoritaire vs majoritaires
92% similar

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

Key facts for majoritaire
PropertyValue
Headwordmajoritaire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#6,411
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « majoritaire »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).majoritairese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « légion » (#6,410), « maux » (#6,412), « libérale » (#6,409). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « majoritaire » est au #6,411. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around majoritaire (IPA \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,411 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for majoritaire, with forms such as "amjoritaire", "majjoritaire", and "majoirtaire". 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, "minoritaire", "majoritaires", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is majoritaire, spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-A-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Le plus répandu.
  2. 2
    Qualifie un système électoral fondé sur la majorité absolue des voix, sans qu’il soit tenu compte des suffrages exprimés par les minorités, par opposition aux systèmes fondés sur d’autres principes.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le sous-lignage BA5 est aujourd’hui majoritaire en France.
  2. Les religions majoritaires.

Antonyms

minoritaire

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amjoritaire
  • majjoritaire
  • majoirtaire
  • majoriatire
  • majoritaier
  • majoritairre
  • majoritarie
  • majoritiare
  • majorittaire
  • majorritaire
  • majortiaire
  • majroitaire
  • maojritaire
  • mjaoritaire
  • mmajoritaire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of majoritaire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amjoritaire2majjoritaire1majoirtaire2majoriatire2majoritaier2majoritairre1majoritarie2majoritiare2
Edit distance from "majoritaire"

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 "majoritaire"?
"majoritaire" is spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\.
What does "majoritaire" mean?
As an adjective, "majoritaire" means: Le plus répandu.
What words are commonly confused with "majoritaire"?
"majoritaire" is commonly confused with "minoritaire", "majoritaires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "majoritaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "majoritaire" is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "majoritaire" come from?
"majoritaire" 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 "majoritaire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

intéressent#6,404ordinateurs#6,421recommencer#6,432attribution#6,371

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

préfèrent15 variantsdirecteurs15 variantsconversion15 variantsarchevêque15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list