dent œillère
\dɑ̃ œ.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“dent œillère” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Canine, dent de la mâchoire supérieure, qui sont entre les incisives et les molaires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dent œillère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ œ.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dent œillère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dent œillère is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ œ.jɛʁ\. 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: "Canine, dent de la mâchoire supérieure, qui sont entre les incisives et les molaires.".
dent œillère doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dent œillère, spelled D-E-N-T- -Œ-I-L-L-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Canine, dent de la mâchoire supérieure, qui sont entre les incisives et les molaires.
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.
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Using “dent œillère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E-N-T- -Œ-I-L-L-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dɑ̃ œ.jɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.