dental
[dɛnˈtaːl]
The verdict
“dental” is uncommon German (frequency #55,238 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,238
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu den Zähnen gehörig, die Zähne betreffend
Corpus desk
Index DE-dental · dental · German
dental · rank #55,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,238
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH deponieren
Nearest frequency peer: deponieren (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „dental“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Datensicher…
Datensicherung
44,768 corpus weight
- debütierte
debütierte
44,767 corpus weight
- dekorativ
dekorativ
44,765 corpus weight
- dental
dental
44,763 corpus weight
- deponieren
deponieren
44,762 corpus weight
- destruktive
destruktive
44,759 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dental“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dental |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [dɛnˈtaːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dental“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dental is uncommon German at frequency #55,238 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [dɛnˈtaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dental, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is dental, spelled D-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1zu den Zähnen gehörig, die Zähne betreffend
- 2mit Zunge und (oberen) Zähnen gebildet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Geschäftsmann aus Malawi biss in die Nase eines Krokodils, das ihn beim Schwimmen attackierte; eine Inderin griff zur dentalen Notwehr nach einem Schlangenbiss: Sie packte Kopf und Rumpf der Kobra und zerbiss ihr Rückgrat, die Schlange starb, die Frau genas.
Die Rote Betäubungsmittelliste sagt: Xylbcain, ein Diäthylaminoacetyl-2,6-xylidin, findet als dentales und maxillofaziales Lokalanästhetikum Verwendung.
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Antonyms
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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