dens
/dɛnz/noun, verb
dens is spelled D-E-N-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dens means “A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dens is dentes.
How many letters and syllables are in dens?
| Letters | 4: D-E-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dens?
Dens appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce dens?
- /dɛnz/
Dens has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-dens.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dens?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dens.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: send, ends, sned.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of dens
- dentes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dens mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.
- 2
plural of den
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of den.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dens come from?
Borrowed from Latin dēns (“a tooth”). Doublet of dent and tooth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).