dentil
noun
dentil is a noun meaning “Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-N-T-I-L, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dentil is dentils.
What does dentil mean?
noun
- 1
Any one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting like teeth from a molding or beneath a cornice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dentil
- dentils plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dentil?
Dentil appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).
Dentil in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a small rectangular block projecting like a tooth from beneath a cornice:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dentil come from?
From French dentille, ultimately from Latin dente, ablative singular of dēns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).