digestive system
"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
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digestive system |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “digestive system” in English
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
- 1A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how digestive system appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All the food that you eat goes through your digestive system and is digested.
Synonyms
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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.