majuscule
\ma.ʒys.kyl\
The verdict
“majuscule” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,477
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un caractère (d’écriture et d’imprimerie) plus grand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-majuscule · majuscule · French
majuscule · rank #17,477 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,477
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maigres
Nearest frequency peer: maigres (-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 « majuscule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légume
légume
82,527 corpus weight
- maigres
maigres
82,525 corpus weight
- majuscule
majuscule
82,524 corpus weight
- Manier
Manier
82,523 corpus weight
- marxisme
marxisme
82,522 corpus weight
- miniatures
miniatures
82,521 corpus weight
What this shows « majuscule » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | majuscule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʒys.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « majuscule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around majuscule (IPA \ma.ʒys.kyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,477 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Un caractère (d’écriture et d’imprimerie) plus grand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for majuscule, with forms such as "amjuscule", "majjuscule", and "majsucule". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "minuscule", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 majuscule, spelled M-A-J-U-S-C-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Un caractère (d’écriture et d’imprimerie) plus grand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how majuscule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voilà l'ignorance devenue l'Ignorance avec majuscule, c'est à dire absolue. Mais elle n'est telle qu'à cause du caractère samsariquement invincible de l'ignorance, avec minuscule, du Soi absolu.
Le caractère anguleux et allongé des minuscules des premières années du 13ᵉ siècle s'est maintenant étendu à toutes les majuscules, la fourche à l'extrémité des hastes montantes tend à s'écarter encore, on ne trouve quasiment plus de perluettes ni de « e » cédillés, les abréviations plus communes au 13ᵉ siècle comme le « ; » pour le est sont maintenant in…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amjuscule
- majjuscule
- majsucule
- majucsule
- majusccule
- majusclue
- majuscuel
- majusculle
- majusscule
- majusucle
- maujscule
- mjauscule
- mmajuscule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of majuscule - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).