dentifrice
\dɑ̃.ti.fʁis\
The verdict
“dentifrice” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,906
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparation servant à nettoyer les dents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dentifrice · dentifrice · French
dentifrice · rank #21,906 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,906
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Davidson
Nearest frequency peer: Davidson (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dentifrice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cuvée
cuvée
78,098 corpus weight
- côtoient
côtoient
78,097 corpus weight
- Davidson
Davidson
78,096 corpus weight
- dentifrice
dentifrice
78,095 corpus weight
- Depardieu
Depardieu
78,094 corpus weight
- descendante
descendante
78,093 corpus weight
What this shows « dentifrice » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentifrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.ti.fʁis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dentifrice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dentifrice (IPA \dɑ̃.ti.fʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,906 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Préparation servant à nettoyer les dents.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dentifrice, with forms such as "ddentifrice", "denitfrice", and "denntifrice". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dentifrice, spelled D-E-N-T-I-F-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Préparation servant à nettoyer les dents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dentifrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ce but il est indispensable de leur faire nettoyer les dents matin et soir avec une poudre et mieux encore avec un savon dentifrice. À cet effet, on leur recommandera de faire usage d'une brosse pas trop dure avec laquelle ils se nettoieront les dents.
Les dentifrices se présentent sous l'aspect liquide, pâteux, solide, en poudre. […] les dentifrices pâteux sont souvent renfermés dans un tubes dont on presse une extrémité pour faire sortir la pâte à l'autre extrémité, et la répandre sur la brosse à dents.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddentifrice
- denitfrice
- denntifrice
- dentfirice
- dentiffrice
- dentifirce
- dentifrcie
- dentifricce
- dentifriec
- dentifrrice
- dentirfice
- denttifrice
- detnifrice
- dnetifrice
- edntifrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dentifrice - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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