materialist
/məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/noun, adjective
materialist is spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is materalists: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Materialist is a noun meaning “Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions”. The plural of materialist is materialists.
How many letters and syllables are in materialist?
| Letters | 11: M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 46,473rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, materalists, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell materialist?
Materialist is spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for materialist in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is materialist?
Materialist appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce materialist?
- /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/
Materialist has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-materialist.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of materialist
- materialists plural
- more materialist comparative
- most materialist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does materialist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
- 2
A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
adjective
- 1
Of or concerning materialism.
- 2
Synonym of materialistic, concerned only with material things.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Materialist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | matérialiste |
| German | Materialist, Materialistin , materialistisch |
| Portuguese | materialista |
| Spanish | materialista |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does materialist come from?
From material + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).