digestible

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The English entry for digestible is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /daɪˈdʒɛstəbəɫ/. Corpus data places it at rank #42,606 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Capable of being digested.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for digestible, with forms such as "ddigestible", "dgiestible", and "diegstible". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "digestive", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French digestible, equivalent to digest + -ible. 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 digestible, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.