dentition

Other forms of dentition

plural

dentitions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dentition

What does dentition mean?

dentition means "the eruption through the gums of baby teeth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dentition?

dentition has 3 syllables: den-tit-ion. The stress falls on "tit". In IPA it is /dɛnˈtɪʃən/.

What is another word for dentition?

Close synonyms include teething, odontiasis, teeth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dentition a common word?

dentition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dentition?

14 words rhyme with dentition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.