majorité

/\ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#904

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

majorité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Groupe des votants ou des suffrages plus nombreux que les autres, soit majorité absolue ou majorité relative. Pronounced \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\. It ranks #904 in French word frequency. Often confused with minorité and maturité.

Key facts for majorité
PropertyValue
Headwordmajorité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#904
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of majorité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for majorité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #904 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for majorité, with forms such as "amjorité", "majjorité", and "majoirté". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "minorité", "maturité", "Majorque", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 majorité, spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Groupe des votants ou des suffrages plus nombreux que les autres, soit majorité absolue ou majorité relative.
  2. 2
    Parti qui, dans une assemblée, réunit ordinairement le plus grand nombre de suffrages.
  3. 3
    Le plus grand nombre.
  4. 4
    État de celui qui est majeur. Majorité civile.
  5. 5
    Pluralité des individus dans un pays, dans un groupement.
  6. 6
    Résidence de l’état-major dans un port.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amjorité,majjorité,majoirté,majorite,majoritté,majoriét,majorrité,majortié,majroité,maojrité,mjaorité,mmajorité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for majorité

Misspelling Variants of "majorité"

amjorité8majjorité9majoirté8majorite8majoritté9majoriét8majorrité9majortié8
Misspelling Variants of "majorité"

Frequency rank: #904 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "majorité"?
"majorité" is spelled M-A-J-O-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\.
What does "majorité" mean?
As a noun, "majorité" means: Groupe des votants ou des suffrages plus nombreux que les autres, soit majorité absolue ou majorité relative.
What words are commonly confused with "majorité"?
"majorité" is commonly confused with "minorité", "maturité", "Majorque". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "majorité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "majorité" is \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "majorité" come from?
"majorité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.