dentist
/ˈdɛntɪst/noun
dentist is spelled D-E-N-T-I-S-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dentist means “A medical doctor who specializes in teeth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dentist is dentists.
How many letters and syllables are in dentist?
| Letters | 7: D-E-N-T-I-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is dentist?
Dentist appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 dentist?
- /ˈdɛntɪst/
Dentist has 2 syllables (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: En-us-dentist.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dentist
- dentists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dentist mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
Wiktionary also records dentist as a common misspelling of another word in some uses; the senses above are its own.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dentist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense specialized tooth doctor:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dentiste |
| German | Zahnarzt, Zahnärztin, Zahnmediziner m Dentist |
| Portuguese | dentista |
| Spanish | dentista, odontólogo |
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 dentist come from?
Borrowed from French dentiste.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).