matière
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#825
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
matière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui a de la masse et occupe de l’espace. Pronounced \ma.tjɛʁ\. It ranks #825 in French word frequency. Often confused with métier and mature.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for matière is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.tjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #825 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for matière, with forms such as "amtière", "maitère", and "matiere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "métier", "mature", "matter", 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 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 matière, spelled M-A-T-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui a de la masse et occupe de l’espace.
- 2Ce dont une chose est faite.
- 3Substance étendue, divisible et susceptible de recevoir toute sorte de formes.
- 4Qualité des éléments matériels qui entrent dans la réalisation d’une œuvre d’art.
- 5Sujet sur lequel on écrit, on parle.
- 6Sujet enseigné dans un cadre d’un cours.
- 7Quelques-unes des parties qui composent la science du droit.
- 8Sujet qu’on propose à des élèves pour le mettre en narration, en discours, en vers.
- 9Substances évacuées par le haut ou par le bas, c’est-à-dire par l’anus ou la bouche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amtière,maitère,matiere,matirèe,matièer,matièrre,mattière,matèire,mmatière,mtaière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for matière
Misspelling Variants of "matière"
Frequency rank: #825 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: