matériau de construction

/\ma.te.ʁjo də kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“matériau de construction” 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
24
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Matériau utilisé dans la construction et les travaux publics et dont l’assemblage forme des ouvrages.

Key facts for matériau de construction
PropertyValue
Headwordmatériau de construction
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.te.ʁjo də kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\
Letters24
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “matériau de construction” sits in French frequency

matériau de construction falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for matériau de construction is 24 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.te.ʁjo də kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\. 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: "Matériau utilisé dans la construction et les travaux publics et dont l’assemblage forme des ouvrages.".

No misspelling variants are generated for matériau de construction 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 matériau de construction, spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-A-U- -D-E- -C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Matériau utilisé dans la construction et les travaux publics et dont l’assemblage forme des ouvrages.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "matériau de construction"?
"matériau de construction" is spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-A-U- -D-E- -C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.te.ʁjo də kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\.
What does "matériau de construction" mean?
As a noun, "matériau de construction" means: Matériau utilisé dans la construction et les travaux publics et dont l’assemblage forme des ouvrages.
How do you pronounce "matériau de construction"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "matériau de construction" is \ma.te.ʁjo də kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "matériau de construction" come from?
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Using “matériau de construction”

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-U- -D-E- -C-O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ma.te.ʁjo də kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃\ (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.

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