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digest

/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/verb, noun

digest is spelled D-I-G-E-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is disgest: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 278 of all searches for the word. Digest is a verb meaning “To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or…”.

How many letters and syllables are in digest?

Letters6: D-I-G-E-S-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, disgest, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell digest?

Digest is spelled D-I-G-E-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 275 of the searches for digest in either form.

digestthe right spelling5,470 searches a month
disgestan extra s20 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is digest?

Digest appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce digest?

  • /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
  • /dəˈd͡ʒɛst/

As a noun (“That which is digested; especially, that which is worked…”): /ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/, /ˈdaɪd͡ʒəst/.

Digest has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-digest-verb.ogg, En-us-digest.oga, En-us-digest-noun.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of digest

  • digests present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • digesting participle, present
  • digested participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does digest mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

    to digest laws

  2. 2

    To 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.

  3. 3

    To 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.

  4. 4

    To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

  5. 5

    To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

  6. 6

    To undergo digestion.

    I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.

  7. 7

    To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.

  8. 8

    obsoleteTo suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

noun

  1. 1

    That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

  2. 2

    A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

    Comyn's Digest

  3. 3

    Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

    Reader's Digest is published monthly.

  4. 4

    The result of applying a hash function to a message.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Digest in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanordnen (to distribute or arrange methodically), verdauen (to separate food in the alimentary canal), überdenken (to think over and arrange methodically in the…), aufschließen (in chemistry: to soften by heat and moisture), verdaulich sein (to undergo digestion), Verdaute (that which is digested)
Spanishdigerir (to distribute or arrange methodically), digerirse (to undergo digestion), resumen (compilation of statutes or decisions…)
Frenchdigérer (to separate food in the alimentary canal), digeste (compilation of statutes or decisions…), revue de presse, revue (magazine of abridged articles)
Portuguesedigerir (to separate food in the alimentary canal), compêndio (compilation of statutes or decisions…), resumo (cryptography: the result of applying a hash…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does digest come from?

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.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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