matérielle
\ma.te.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“matérielle” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,420
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ce qui est nécessaire pour vivre ; revenu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-materielle · matérielle · French
matérielle · rank #12,420 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,420
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 202,672
- PHOTO-FINISH martyr
Nearest frequency peer: martyr (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “matérielle”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- marquent
marquent
87,584 corpus weight
- marquées
marquées
87,583 corpus weight
- martyr
martyr
87,582 corpus weight
- matérielle
matérielle
87,581 corpus weight
- messagerie
messagerie
87,580 corpus weight
- minoritaire
minoritaire
87,579 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “matérielle” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | matérielle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.te.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “matérielle” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around matérielle (IPA \ma.te.ʁjɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,420 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ce qui est nécessaire pour vivre ; revenu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for matérielle, with forms such as "amtérielle", "materielle", and "matréielle". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "matériels", "maternelle", "matérielles", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 matérielle, spelled M-A-T-É-R-I-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est nécessaire pour vivre ; revenu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtérielle
- materielle
- matréielle
- mattérielle
- matéirelle
- matéreille
- matériele
- matérielel
- matérilele
- matérrielle
- maétrielle
- mmatérielle
- mtaérielle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of matérielle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "matérielle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
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.