matérialité
\ma.te.ʁja.li.te\
The verdict
“matérialité” is uncommon French (frequency #50,352 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,352
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
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
Rare enough to double-check
matérialité is uncommon French at frequency #50,352 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.te.ʁja.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for matérialité, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is matérialité, spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-A-L-I-T-É.
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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Using “matérialité”
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.
- Say it as \ma.te.ʁja.li.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.