matérialité
\ma.te.ʁja.li.te\
The verdict
“matérialité” is an uncommon French word, ranked #50,352 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,352
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Qualité de ce qui est matériel.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matérialité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.te.ʁja.li.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “matérialité” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for matérialité is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.te.ʁja.li.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,352 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for matérialité 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 matérialité, spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-A-L-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est matériel.
- 2Information matérielle, c’est-à-dire dont l’omission, l’inexactitude ou l’occultation est raisonnablement susceptible d’influencer les décisions d’acheter ou de vendre des actions d’une entreprise, ou de lui prêter ou pas des capitaux.
- 3Réalité d’un fait.
- 4Tendance à s’attacher aux choses matérielles, ou à leur donner une importance prééminente.
This word in other languages
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-T-É-R-I-A-L-I-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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