materialise
"materialise" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“materialise” is uncommon English (frequency #53,685 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,685
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-materialise · materialise · English
materialise · rank #53,685 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,685
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH masterplan
Nearest frequency peer: masterplan (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “materialise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Marky
Marky
46,319 corpus weight
- Martinsville
Martinsville
46,318 corpus weight
- masterplan
masterplan
46,317 corpus weight
- materialise
materialise
46,316 corpus weight
- Maxie
Maxie
46,315 corpus weight
- McCloskey
McCloskey
46,314 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “materialise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materialise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “materialise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
materialise is uncommon English at frequency #53,685 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.".
No misspelling variants are generated for materialise in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From material + -ise; compare with French matérialiser. The correct English form is materialise, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how materialise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Therefore, the new standard design in fact has materialised as a 4-6-2 with two 20 in. cylinders and a boiler pressure of 250 lb. per sq. in.
Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government.
Etymology
From material + -ise; compare with French matérialiser.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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