digitigrade
di·gi·ti·grade/ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/adjective, noun
digitigrade is spelled D-I-G-I-T-I-G-R-A-D-E, 4 syllables: di·gi·ti·grade. The wrong spelling people search most is digitgrade: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Digitigrade is an adjective meaning “Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the…”.
How many letters and syllables are in digitigrade?
| Letters | 11: D-I-G-I-T-I-G-R-A-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: di·gi·ti·grade |
| In writing | about once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, digitgrade, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 digitigrade?
Digitigrade is spelled D-I-G-I-T-I-G-R-A-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for digitigrade 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 digitigrade?
Digitigrade appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 digitigrade?
- UK /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/
- UK /dɪˈd͡ʒɪtɪˌɡɹeɪd/
- US /ˈdɪd͡ʒətəɡɹeɪd/
Digitigrade has 4 syllables, split di·gi·ti·grade in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of digitigrade
- digitigrades plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does digitigrade mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of an animal: walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
- 2
Of feet or a manner of walking: of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
- 3
obsoleteBelonging to the Digitigrada of the taxonomic order Carnivora.
noun
- 1
A digitigrade animal; an animal that walks on its toes, such as a cat or a dog.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Digitigrade in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | digitigrade |
| German | Zehengänger |
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 digitigrade come from?
From French digitigrade, from Latin digitus (“finger, toe, digit”) + -grade (“gait”); compare New Latin digitigradus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).