digest
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "digest", 6-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "digest" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "digest" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
digest is aEnglishverb. It means: To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. Pronounced /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/. Often confused with digs and dist.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for digest is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,018 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for digest, with forms such as "ddigest", "dgiest", and "diegst". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "digs", "dist", "digit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“to carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (tr… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is digest, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- 2To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- 3To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- 4To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- 5To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
- 6To undergo digestion.
- 7To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
- 8To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- 9To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
- 10To ripen; to mature.
- 11To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
Etymology
From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“to carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddigest,dgiest,diegst,digesst,digestt,digets,diggest,digset,idgest
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for digest
Misspelling Variants of "digest"
Frequency rank: #11,018 in English
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