matérialisme

Name: matérialisme, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ma.te.ʁja.lism\

/\ma.te.ʁja.lism\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“matérialisme” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,519
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 18
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doctrine philosophique ou angle d’analyse politique qui ramène tout à la matière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-materialisme · matérialisme · French

matérialisme · rank #27,519 · 18 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-MID #27,519
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-HIGH 18 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH mathématiciens

Nearest frequency peer: mathématiciens (-1 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.

Margaux

72,484
mathématici…

72,483
matérialisme

72,482
Maude

72,481
maury

72,480
maybe

72,479

What this shows « matérialisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

matérialisme vs matérialiste

92% similar

matérialisme vs matérialistes

85% similar

matérialisme vs matérialisé

83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for matérialisme
Property	Value
Headword	matérialisme
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ma.te.ʁja.lism\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#27,519
Misspellings tracked	18
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matérialisme »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.matérialismese place ici:

#27,519

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « mathématiciens » (#27,518), « Maude » (#27,520), « Margaux » (#27,517). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « matérialisme » est au #27,519. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 18 spelling variants around matérialisme (IPA \ma.te.ʁja.lism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,519 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for matérialisme, with forms such as "amtérialisme", "materialisme", and "matréialisme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "matérialiste", "matérialistes", "matérialisé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is matérialisme, spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-A-L-I-S-M-E.

Definition

1
Doctrine philosophique ou angle d’analyse politique qui ramène tout à la matière.
2
Attitude générale ou comportement de celui qui s’attache avec jouissance aux biens, aux valeurs et aux plaisirs matériels.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how matérialisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Enfin, même dans les ouvrages en langue vulgaire, comme dans la deuxième partie du Roman de la Rose, s’est montrée une extrême hardiesse, une extrême liberté de pensée, et jusqu’à une sorte de naturalisme et même de matérialisme prêché hautement, et mis dans la bouche de Genius, prêtre de la nature, ….
La lutte des intérêts matériels et des principes moraux, de l’utilité et du devoir, du matérialisme et du spiritualisme, se représente ici avec une nouvelle force, et sous un point de vue encore plus important.

Synonyms

antispiritualisme

Antonyms

spiritualisme idéalisme

This word in other languages

materialism(English)materialismo(Español)Materialismus(Deutsch)materialismo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

amtérialisme
materialisme
matréialisme
mattérialisme
matéiralisme
matérailisme
matériailsme
matérialimse
matérialisem
matérialismme
matérialissme
matériallisme
matérialsime
matérilaisme
matérrialisme
maétrialisme
mmatérialisme
mtaérialisme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matérialisme - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "matérialisme"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "matérialisme"?

"matérialisme" is spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-A-L-I-S-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.te.ʁja.lism\.

What does "matérialisme" mean?

As a noun, "matérialisme" means: Doctrine philosophique ou angle d’analyse politique qui ramène tout à la matière.

What words are commonly confused with "matérialisme"?

"matérialisme" is commonly confused with "matérialiste", "matérialistes", "matérialisé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "matérialisme"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "matérialisme" is \ma.te.ʁja.lism\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "matérialisme" come from?

"matérialisme" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "matérialisme", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

neurologique#27,540 incompétents#27,482 partageaient#27,557 impérialiste#27,479

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).

mutualisation18 variants dérèglement18 variants défavorisées18 variants confrontées18 variants