dental
German, adjective
dental is spelled D-E-N-T-A-L (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 55,211th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dental is a German adjective meaning “dental” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Dental is a different word: “dental”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu den Zähnen gehörig, die Zähne betreffend”.
What does dental mean in English?
adjective
- 1
dental
- 2
dental
noun
- 1
masculinedental
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. zu den Zähnen gehörig, die Zähne betreffend 2. mit Zunge und (oberen) Zähnen gebildet
noun: 1. Bezeichnung für Konsonanten (Mitlaute), die dental, das heißt mit der Zungenspitze an den oberen Schneidezähnen, artikuliert werden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dental
- dentaler masculine nominative singular
- dentale feminine nominative singular
- dentales neuter nominative singular
- dentalen genitive masculine singular
- dentalem dative masculine singular
- der dentale definite includes-article masculine
- die dentale definite feminine includes-article
- das dentale definite includes-article neuter
- die dentalen definite includes-article nominative
- des dentalen definite genitive includes-article
- der dentalen definite feminine genitive
- dem dentalen dative definite includes-article
- den dentalen dative definite includes-article
- Dentale nominative plural
- Dentals genitive singular
- Dentalen dative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dental
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dental in German?
dental appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).