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digital

/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/adjective, noun

digital is spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is digitial: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 143 of all searches for the word. Digital is an adjective meaning “Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger”.

How many letters and syllables are in digital?

Letters7: D-I-G-I-T-A-L
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing68 times per million words; the 1,562nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, digitial, about 70 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 digital?

Digital is spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 142 of the searches for digital in either form.

digitalthe right spelling9,860 searches a month
digitialan extra i70 searches a month

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 digital?

Digital appears 68 times per million words in written English, the 1,562nd 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 digital?

  • /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/

Digital has 3 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-digital.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of digital

  • digitals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does digital mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.

    digital palpation

  2. 2

    Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

    digital computer

  3. 3

    Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

    Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual

noun

  1. 1

    A digital option.

  2. 2

    Digital equipment or technology.

    He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.

  3. 3

    Ellipsis of digital watch.

  4. 4

    informalEllipsis of digital art.

  5. 5

    Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.

    Beginning with the keyboard, direct attention to the grouping of the black digitals, and show that though at the outer edge of the keyboard the white digitals look as if they were all equally close neighbours, yet, […]

  6. 6

    colloquialA finger.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Digital in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdigital (having to do or performed with a finger), numérique (representing discrete values)
GermanFinger-, digital (having to do or performed with a finger)
Portuguesedigital (having to do or performed with a finger)
Spanishdigital, dactilar (having to do or performed with a finger)

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 digital come from?

Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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