matière fécale
\ma.tjɛʁ fe.kal\
The verdict
“matière fécale” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fèces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matiere-fecale · matière fécale · French
matière fécale · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matière fécale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tjɛʁ fe.kal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matière fécale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matière fécale is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.tjɛʁ fe.kal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fèces.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for matière fécale, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is matière fécale, spelled M-A-T-I-È-R-E- -F-É-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Fèces.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how matière fécale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; mais le professeur A. Riva (2) donne, comme signe pour le diagnostic de l’empoisonnement par le phosphore, l'absence de la biline et du bilinogène dans les urines et dans les matières fécales.
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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.