materialista
[mat̪eɾjaˈlist̪a]
The verdict
“materialista” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,000
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne al materialismo.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materialista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [mat̪eɾjaˈlist̪a] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “materialista” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around materialista (IPA [mat̪eɾjaˈlist̪a]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,000 among 36,142 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for materialista, with forms such as "amterialista", "maetrialista", and "mateiralista". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "materializa", "materialismo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is materialista, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne al materialismo.
- 2Partidario del materialismo.
- 3Adicto a los bienes materiales.
- 4Que tiende a sobrevalorar la ventaja de material, ignorando compensaciones por iniciativa u otro tipo de ventajas del juego.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amterialista
- maetrialista
- mateiralista
- materailista
- materiailsta
- materialisat
- materialissta
- materialistta
- materialitsa
- materiallista
- materialsita
- materilaista
- materrialista
- matreialista
- matterialista
- mmaterialista
- mtaerialista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of materialista - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “materialista”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mat̪eɾjaˈlist̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “materializa” - see the side-by-side comparison. materialista vs materializa
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.