digit
/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/noun
digit is spelled D-I-G-I-T. The wrong spelling people search most is sigit: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 72 of all searches for the word. Digit is a noun meaning “A position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system”. The plural of digit is digits.
How many letters and syllables are in digit?
| Letters | 5: D-I-G-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sigit, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell digit?
Digit is spelled D-I-G-I-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 73 of the searches for digit in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is digit?
Digit appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce digit?
- /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/
Digit has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-digit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of digit
- digits plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- digiting participle, present
- digited participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does digit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system.
The base-10 number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
- 2
A distinct symbol representing a natural number in a positional number system.
Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
- 3
¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.
A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
- 4
A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.
- 5
obsoleteSynonym of inch.
- 6
A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
- 7
Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
- 8
obsoleterareSynonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.
verb
- 1
archaicTo point at or point out with the finger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Digit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chiffre , doigt , orteil |
| German | Ziffer, Stelle , Finger, Zeh |
| Portuguese | dígito, algarismo , dedo |
| Spanish | dígito, cifra, guarismo, letra de guarismo , dedo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does digit come from?
Inherited from Middle English digit, borrowed from Latin digitus. Doublet of digitus and dedo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).