How to spell dentist

hear itden·tist/'dɛntɪst/nounSounds

What it means: A doctor who takes care of teeth.

In a sentence: The dentist helps keep our teeth healthy and clean.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as dentest or dentisst.

Same family: dental, dentistry, orthodontist, dentures, tooth. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Dentist” comes from the French word “dentiste,” based on the Latin “dens, dentis,” meaning “tooth.” The suffix “-ist” is the same one you see in words like “artist” and “scientist,” meaning “a person who does or practices something.”

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