materia gris
[maˈt̪eɾja ˈɣ̞ɾis]
The verdict
“materia gris” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Estructura formada por los cuerpos de las neuronas que constituyen el centro de la médula espinal y la parte externa del cerebro, relacionada con las percepciones, memoria, lenguaje, emociones y co...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materia gris |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maˈt̪eɾja ˈɣ̞ɾis] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “materia gris” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for materia gris is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈt̪eɾja ˈɣ̞ɾis]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for materia gris in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
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 gris, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A- -G-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estructura formada por los cuerpos de las neuronas que constituyen el centro de la médula espinal y la parte externa del cerebro, relacionada con las percepciones, memoria, lenguaje, emociones y control muscular. En el cerebro rodea a la sustancia blanca, y en la médula espinal, inversamente, es esta la que cubre a la sustancia gris.
- 2Inteligencia o capacidad de pensar y razonar.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “materia gris”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-T-E-R-I-A- -G-R-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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