mayorat
French, noun\ma.jɔ.ʁa\
mayorat is spelled M-A-Y-O-R-A-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mayorat is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of maïorat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fonction du mayeur (maire)”.
What does mayorat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of maïorat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fonction du mayeur (maire).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mayorat
- mayorats plural
- maïorat
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mayorat?
- \ma.jɔ.ʁa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mayorat in French?
mayorat appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).