digestive system

noun

"digestive-system" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“digestive system” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.

Corpus desk

Index EN-digestive-system · digestive system · English

digestive system · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "D" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for digestive system
PropertyValue
Headworddigestive system
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “digestive system” in English

digestive systemranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

digestive system is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

  1. 1
    A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how digestive system appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. All the food that you eat goes through your digestive system and is digested.

Synonyms

digestive systemdigestive tractgastrointestinal tract

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "digestive system"?
"digestive system" is spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-V-E- -S-Y-S-T-E-M.
What does "digestive system" mean?
As a noun, "digestive system" means: A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.
What language does "digestive system" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list