materialisation
"materialisation" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“materialisation” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.
Corpus desk
Index EN-materialisation · materialisation · English
materialisation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | materialisation |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “materialisation” in English
Rare enough to double-check
materialisation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.".
Zero misspellings are on record for materialisation in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From material + -isation. The correct English form is materialisation, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialization.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how materialisation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sandpit, mud, lollipop sticks, goo, plasticine, oozing clay and, later, petri dishes and test tubes: playing with such stuff, Hall argues, has clearly influenced the materialisations of contemporary art, so much of it three-dimensional, inherently transient and labile, and playful. Homo ludens has supplanted homo faber.
There are floating tables, floating musical instruments, and at some point you get full-form materialisation of ghosts, dressed in white.
Etymology
From material + -isation.
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.