digestive
/daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/
"digestive" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“digestive” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,800
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-digestive · digestive · English
digestive · rank #15,800 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,800
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dialog
Nearest frequency peer: dialog (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “digestive”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- detachment
detachment
84,204 corpus weight
- dialog
dialog
84,202 corpus weight
- digestive
digestive
84,201 corpus weight
- diminish
diminish
84,200 corpus weight
- disclaimer
disclaimer
84,199 corpus weight
- disconnect
disconnect
84,198 corpus weight
What this shows “digestive” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digestive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “digestive”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around digestive (IPA /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,800 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for digestive, with forms such as "ddigestive", "dgiestive", and "diegstive". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "directive", "digestion", "digestible", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus. Doublet of digestif. The correct English form is digestive, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
- 2That causes or promotes digestion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how digestive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
While the doctor and the natives were taking a digestive nap after dinner, I strolled forth to have a peep at the country which could produce so generous a meal.
Etymology
From Old French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus. Doublet of digestif.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddigestive
- dgiestive
- diegstive
- digesitve
- digesstive
- digestiev
- digestivve
- digesttive
- digestvie
- digetsive
- diggestive
- digsetive
- idgestive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digestive - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "digestive", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).