dentin
"dentin" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dentin” is uncommon English (frequency #73,116 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,116
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dentin · dentin · English
dentin · rank #73,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,116
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH despondency
Nearest frequency peer: despondency (+1 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 “dentin”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deathless
deathless
26,890 corpus weight
- debilitated
debilitated
26,889 corpus weight
- dentin
dentin
26,885 corpus weight
- despondency
despondency
26,884 corpus weight
- destabilise
destabilise
26,883 corpus weight
- detracting
detracting
26,879 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dentin” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dentin” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dentin is uncommon English at frequency #73,116 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dentin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French dentine, from Latin dens (“tooth”) + English chemical suffix -in / -ine. The correct English form is dentin, spelled D-E-N-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.
Etymology
From French dentine, from Latin dens (“tooth”) + English chemical suffix -in / -ine.
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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