digestive system
"digestive-system" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“digestive system” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digestive system |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “digestive system” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for digestive system is 16 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.".
No misspelling variants are generated for digestive system in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is digestive system, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-V-E- -S-Y-S-T-E-M.
Definition
- 1A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “digestive system”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-I-G-E-S-T-I-V-E- -S-Y-S-T-E-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.