materiality
"materiality" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“materiality” is uncommon English (frequency #55,589 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,589
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materiality |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “materiality” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
materiality is uncommon English at frequency #55,589 among 36,575 “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
- 1The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
- 2The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.
Etymology
From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.
Antonyms
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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Using “materiality”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-T-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.