dentée
\dɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“dentée” is uncommon French (frequency #67,431 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,431
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup de dent qu’un chien donne à une bête que l’on chasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dentee · dentée · French
dentée · rank #67,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,431
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Denmark
Nearest frequency peer: Denmark (-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 « dentée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- decoration
decoration
32,576 corpus weight
- demeurez
demeurez
32,574 corpus weight
- Denmark
Denmark
32,571 corpus weight
- dentée
dentée
32,570 corpus weight
- Desaix
Desaix
32,567 corpus weight
- dessalement
dessalement
32,566 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dentée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dentée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dentée is uncommon French at frequency #67,431 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɑ̃.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dentée in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dentée, spelled D-E-N-T-É-E.
Definition
- 1Coup de dent qu’un chien donne à une bête que l’on chasse.
- 2Coups que le sanglier donne avec ses défenses.
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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