gumline
noun
gumline is a noun meaning “The line along the top of the gums, where they meet the surface of the teeth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-M-L-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gumline is gumlines.
What does gumline mean?
noun
- 1
The line along the top of the gums, where they meet the surface of the teeth
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gumline
- gumlines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gumline?
Gumline appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).
Where does gumline come from?
From gum + line.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).