milk tooth

noun

"milk-tooth" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“milk tooth” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or animals).

Corpus desk

Index EN-milk-tooth · milk tooth · English

milk tooth · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for milk tooth
PropertyValue
Headwordmilk tooth
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “milk tooth” in English

milk toothfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

milk tooth is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or animals).".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for milk tooth, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From milk + tooth. The correct English form is milk tooth, spelled M-I-L-K- -T-O-O-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or animals).

Etymology

From milk + tooth.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "milk tooth"?
"milk tooth" is spelled M-I-L-K- -T-O-O-T-H.
What does "milk tooth" mean?
As a noun, "milk tooth" means: Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or animals).
What is the origin of the word "milk tooth"?
From milk + tooth. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list