matériel
\ma.te.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“matériel” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,743. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,743
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est formé de matière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-materiel · matériel · French
matériel · rank #1,743 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,743
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lancer
Nearest frequency peer: lancer (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « matériel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Japon
Japon
98,261 corpus weight
- justement
justement
98,260 corpus weight
- lancer
lancer
98,259 corpus weight
- matériel
matériel
98,258 corpus weight
- montant
montant
98,257 corpus weight
- nations
nations
98,256 corpus weight
What this shows « matériel » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matériel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.te.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « matériel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around matériel (IPA \ma.te.ʁjɛl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,743 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for matériel, with forms such as "amtériel", "materiel", and "matréiel". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "maternel", "matériels", "maternels", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is matériel, spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est formé de matière.
- 2Qui a rapport à la matière, qui tient de la matière.
- 3Qui ne s’attache guère qu’aux choses de la matière.
- 4Dans l’ancienne philosophie scolastique, signifiait qui est opposé à formel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how matériel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les substances, les choses matérielles.
Il faut penser aux architectures matérielle et logicielle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtériel
- materiel
- matréiel
- mattériel
- matéirel
- matéreil
- matériell
- matérile
- matérriel
- maétriel
- mmatériel
- mtaériel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matériel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "matériel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).