dent de sagesse

/\dɑ̃ də sa.ʒɛs\/ noun

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15 characters

Language

French

word origin

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0

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dent de sagesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: L’une des quatre dernières molaires, qui poussent ordinairement entre 17 et 25 ans. Certains n’en ont pas. Pronounced \dɑ̃ də sa.ʒɛs\.

Key facts for dent de sagesse
PropertyValue
Headworddent de sagesse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɑ̃ də sa.ʒɛs\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dent de sagesse is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dent de sagesse is 15 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ də sa.ʒɛs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "L’une des quatre dernières molaires, qui poussent ordinairement entre 17 et 25 ans. Certains n’en ont pas.".

No misspelling variants are generated for dent de sagesse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dent de sagesse, spelled D-E-N-T- -D-E- -S-A-G-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    L’une des quatre dernières molaires, qui poussent ordinairement entre 17 et 25 ans. Certains n’en ont pas.

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How do you spell "dent de sagesse"?
"dent de sagesse" is spelled D-E-N-T- -D-E- -S-A-G-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɑ̃ də sa.ʒɛs\.
What does "dent de sagesse" mean?
As a noun, "dent de sagesse" means: L’une des quatre dernières molaires, qui poussent ordinairement entre 17 et 25 ans. Certains n’en ont pas.
How do you pronounce "dent de sagesse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dent de sagesse" is \dɑ̃ də sa.ʒɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dent de sagesse" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.