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digits

noun

digits is spelled D-I-G-I-T-S: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, digits means “plural of digit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in digits?

Letters6: D-I-G-I-T-S
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is digits?

Digits appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 digits?

  • Australia

Digits 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-au-digits.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does digits mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of digit (a form of digit)

  2. 2

    USdatedslangSynonym of telephone number; especially, the one that belongs to a potential dating partner.

    Sure she seemed interested – but did you get those digits though?

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

Digits in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense slang: telephone number:

LanguageWords
GermanNummer

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.

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