dentate
/ˈdɛnteɪt/
"dentate" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dentate” is uncommon English (frequency #69,784 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,784
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dentate · dentate · English
dentate · rank #69,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,784
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH deign
Nearest frequency peer: deign (-3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “dentate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deign
deign
30,220 corpus weight
- dentate
dentate
30,217 corpus weight
- dibble
dibble
30,214 corpus weight
- diggity
diggity
30,213 corpus weight
- dimwit
dimwit
30,212 corpus weight
- dipstick
dipstick
30,210 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dentate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdɛnteɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dentate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dentate is uncommon English at frequency #69,784 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈdɛnteɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dentate in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin dentātus, from dēns (“tooth”, oblique stem in dēnt-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The correct English form is dentate, spelled D-E-N-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dentātus, from dēns (“tooth”, oblique stem in dēnt-) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).