materfamilias
"materfamilias" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“materfamilias” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The female head of a household.
Corpus desk
Index EN-materfamilias · materfamilias · English
materfamilias · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materfamilias |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “materfamilias” in English
Rare enough to double-check
materfamilias is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The female head of a household.".
materfamilias has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin māter familiās (“mother of the household”). The correct English form is materfamilias, spelled M-A-T-E-R-F-A-M-I-L-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1The female head of a household.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how materfamilias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion.
That my old-country materfamilias is actually Chinese--Mandarin Chinese, yet--is a negligible discrepancy.
Etymology
From Latin māter familiās (“mother of the household”).
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.