dental
\dɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“dental” is uncommon French (frequency #77,414 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,414
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient aux dents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dental · dental · French
dental · rank #77,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,414
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH desséchés
Nearest frequency peer: desséchés (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dental »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DDD
DDD
22,591 corpus weight
- deadly
deadly
22,590 corpus weight
- deeds
deeds
22,589 corpus weight
- dental
dental
22,587 corpus weight
- desséchés
desséchés
22,586 corpus weight
- deve
deve
22,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dental » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dental » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dental is uncommon French at frequency #77,414 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɑ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dental, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dental, spelled D-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient aux dents.
- 2Se dit de consonnes qu’on ne peut pas prononcer sans que la langue touche les dents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dental appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nerfs dentaux.
[d], [t] etc. sont des consonnes dentales.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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