material

/ma.te.ɾi.ˈaw/

//ma.te.ɾi.ˈaw// adj

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The verdict

“material” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,120
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,087
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativo à matéria

Corpus desk

Index PT-material · material · Portuguese

material · rank #1,120 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,120
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,087
  • PHOTO-FINISH lula

Nearest frequency peer: lula (-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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “material”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “material” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

material vs maternal
88% similar
material vs matéria
75% similar
material vs mataria
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for material
PropertyValue
Headwordmaterial
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
IPA/ma.te.ɾi.ˈaw/
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,120
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “material”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).materialcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “lula” (#1,119), “México” (#1,123), “estação” (#1,116). Entre 1,087 lemas com “M”, “material” fica em #1,120. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around material (IPA /ma.te.ɾi.ˈaw/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,120 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for material, with forms such as "amterial", "maetrial", and "mateiral". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maternal", "matéria", "mataria", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is material, spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    relativo à matéria
  2. 2
    que não é espiritual
  3. 3
    grosseiro

This word in other languages

material(English)material(Español)matériel(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amterial
  • maetrial
  • mateiral
  • materail
  • materiall
  • materila
  • materrial
  • matreial
  • matterial
  • mmaterial
  • mtaerial

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of material - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amterial2maetrial2mateiral2materail2materiall1materila2materrial1matreial2
Edit distance from "material"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "material"?
"material" is spelled M-A-T-E-R-I-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is /ma.te.ɾi.ˈaw/.
What does "material" mean?
As an adjective, "material" means: relativo à matéria
What words are commonly confused with "material"?
"material" is commonly confused with "maternal", "matéria", "mataria". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "material"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "material" is /ma.te.ɾi.ˈaw/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "material" come from?
"material" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "material", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

perfeito#1,127anterior#1,109carreira#1,137operação#1,081

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

deputado11 variantsespírito11 variantslembrar11 variantsnatureza11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list