majorité
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majorité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Groupe des votants ou des suffrages plus nombreux que les autres, soit majorité absolue ou majorité relative.
- 2Parti qui, dans une assemblée, réunit ordinairement le plus grand nombre de suffrages.
- 3Le plus grand nombre.
- 4État de celui qui est majeur. Majorité civile.
- 5Pluralité des individus dans un pays, dans un groupement.
- 6Résidence de l’état-major dans un port.
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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"
Frequency rank: #904 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: