génie des matériaux
\ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\
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
- letters
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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | génie des matériaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒe.ni de ma.te.ʁjo\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “génie des matériaux” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Branche 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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- 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.
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