pasta de dents

/[…]/ noun

The verdict

“pasta de dents” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: die Zahnpasta, die Zahncreme

Key facts for pasta de dents
PropertyValue
Headwordpasta de dents
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pasta de dents” sits in German frequency

pasta de dents falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for pasta de dents is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "die Zahnpasta, die Zahncreme".

No misspelling variants are generated for pasta de dents in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is pasta de dents, spelled P-A-S-T-A- -D-E- -D-E-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Zahnpasta, die Zahncreme

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pasta de dents"?
"pasta de dents" is spelled P-A-S-T-A- -D-E- -D-E-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "pasta de dents" mean?
As a noun, "pasta de dents" means: die Zahnpasta, die Zahncreme
How do you pronounce "pasta de dents"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pasta de dents" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pasta de dents" come from?
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Using “pasta de dents”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is P-A-S-T-A- -D-E- -D-E-N-T-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: 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.