matière plastique
\ma.tjɛʁ plas.tik\
The verdict
“matière plastique” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Matériau constitué principalement de polymères synthétiques ou artificiels, éventuellement associés à des additifs, pouvant être moulé ou façonné sous l’action de la chaleur et de la pression pour ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matière plastique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tjɛʁ plas.tik\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “matière plastique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for matière plastique is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.tjɛʁ plas.tik\. 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 constitué principalement de polymères synthétiques ou artificiels, éventuellement associés à des additifs, pouvant être moulé ou façonné sous l’action de la chaleur et de la pression pour ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for matière plastique in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is matière plastique, spelled M-A-T-I-È-R-E- -P-L-A-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Matériau constitué principalement de polymères synthétiques ou artificiels, éventuellement associés à des additifs, pouvant être moulé ou façonné sous l’action de la chaleur et de la pression pour fabriquer divers objets.
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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.
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Using “matière plastique”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-T-I-È-R-E- -P-L-A-S-T-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.