materiality

noun

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"materiality" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“materiality” is uncommon English (frequency #55,589 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,589
frequency rank, English
4,057
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The quality of being material; having a physical existence.

Corpus desk

Index EN-materiality · materiality · English

materiality · rank #55,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,589
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,057
  • PHOTO-FINISH masthead

Nearest frequency peer: masthead (-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 “materiality”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “materiality” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for materiality
PropertyValue
Headwordmateriality
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#55,589
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “materiality” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).materialityfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “masthead” (#55,588), “matting” (#55,590), “masterwork” (#55,587). Among 4,057 “M” headwords, “materiality” is #55,589. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

materiality is uncommon English at frequency #55,589 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for materiality in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās. The correct English form is materiality, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
  2. 2
    The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how materiality appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power. Something of the…
  2. According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience for viewers, free from any external connotations.

Etymology

From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.

Antonyms

immaterialityethereality

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "materiality"?
"materiality" is spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-T-Y.
What does "materiality" mean?
As a noun, "materiality" means: The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
What is the origin of the word "materiality"?
From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "materiality", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

magisterial#55,576Novosibirsk#55,618objectified#55,620paralleling#55,630

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list