rage de dents
\ʁaʒ də dɑ̃\
The verdict
“rage de dents” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mal de dent provoqué par une carie ou un abcès.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rage de dents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaʒ də dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rage de dents” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rage de dents is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁaʒ də dɑ̃\. 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: "Mal de dent provoqué par une carie ou un abcès.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rage de dents 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 rage de dents, spelled R-A-G-E- -D-E- -D-E-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mal de dent provoqué par une carie ou un abcès.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is R-A-G-E- -D-E- -D-E-N-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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