materia
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,298
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
materia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Uno de los estados básicos de la sustancia del universo, caracterizada por ocupar volumen y poseer masa. Pronounced [maˈt̪eɾja]. It ranks #1,298 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with matriz and mayoría.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈt̪eɾja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for materia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈt̪eɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,298 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for materia, with forms such as "amteria", "maetria", and "mateira". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "matriz", "mayoría", "miseria", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is materia, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uno de los estados básicos de la sustancia del universo, caracterizada por ocupar volumen y poseer masa.
- 2Uno de los componentes de la sustancia, el sustrato potencial actualizado por la forma, que es una de sus cuatro causas de acuerdo a los partidarios del hilemorfismo.
- 3Por extensión, la parte no espiritual de la realidad.
- 4Asunto o temática del que se ocupa una obra o documento.
- 5Objeto que se estudia en un curso académico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amteria,maetria,mateira,materai,materria,matreia,matteria,mmateria,mtaeria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "materia"
Frequency rank: #1,298 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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