génie des matériaux

\ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\

/\ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\/ noun

The verdict

“génie des matériaux” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Branche de l’ingénierie qui applique la science des matériaux à la conception, à l’élaboration, à la transformation, au traitement et à l’utilisation des matériaux dans des contextes industriels et...

Key facts for génie des matériaux
PropertyValue
Headwordgénie des matériaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “génie des matériaux” sits in French frequency

génie des matériaux falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for génie des matériaux is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Branche de l’ingénierie qui applique la science des matériaux à la conception, à l’élaboration, à la transformation, au traitement et à l’utilisation des matériaux dans des contextes industriels et...".

No misspelling variants are generated for génie des matériaux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is génie des matériaux, spelled G-É-N-I-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-T-É-R-I-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Branche de l’ingénierie qui applique la science des matériaux à la conception, à l’élaboration, à la transformation, au traitement et à l’utilisation des matériaux dans des contextes industriels et technologiques.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "génie des matériaux"?
"génie des matériaux" is spelled G-É-N-I-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-T-É-R-I-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\.
What does "génie des matériaux" mean?
As a noun, "génie des matériaux" means: Branche de l’ingénierie qui applique la science des matériaux à la conception, à l’élaboration, à la transformation, au traitement et à l’utilisation des matériaux dans des contextes industriels et...
How do you pronounce "génie des matériaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "génie des matériaux" is \ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “génie des matériaux”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is G-É-N-I-E- -D-E-S- -M-A-T-É-R-I-A-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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