materia
\ma.ˈte.ɾja\
The verdict
“materia” is uncommon French (frequency #77,695 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,695
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-materia · materia · French
materia · rank #77,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,695
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mauges
Nearest frequency peer: Mauges (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « materia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marial
marial
22,310 corpus weight
- Marseillan
Marseillan
22,309 corpus weight
- materia
materia
22,306 corpus weight
- Mauges
Mauges
22,304 corpus weight
- mayennais
mayennais
22,303 corpus weight
- Mayflower
Mayflower
22,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « materia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | materia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ˈte.ɾja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « materia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
materia is uncommon French at frequency #77,695 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ˈte.ɾja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matière.".
No misspelling variants are generated for materia 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is materia, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Matière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how materia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La materia oscura: aquella que, invisible a nuestros medios actuales de percepción, se postula para dar cuenta de algunos de los modelos científicos de evolución del universo.
La materia prima: en el hilemorfismo, el principio último de individuación que, siendo puramente potencial, no existe nunca separado de la forma.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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