digits
"digits" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“digits” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,872. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,872
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of telephone number; especially, the one that belongs to a potential dating partner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-digits · digits · English
digits · rank #11,872 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,872
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dime
Nearest frequency peer: dime (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “digits”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- dictator
dictator
88,132 corpus weight
- digits
digits
88,129 corpus weight
- dime
dime
88,128 corpus weight
- dire
dire
88,127 corpus weight
- disagreement
disagreement
88,126 corpus weight
- disciples
disciples
88,125 corpus weight
What this shows “digits” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digits |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “digits”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around digits, anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,872 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Synonym of telephone number; especially, the one that belongs to a potential dating partner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for digits, with forms such as "ddigits", "dgiits", and "diggits". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "digs", "dignity", "digi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is digits, spelled D-I-G-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of telephone number; especially, the one that belongs to a potential dating partner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how digits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sure she seemed interested — but did you get those digits though?
Muddah called every now and then, and I dialed her digits a few times too, but shit just felt funny when I talked to her.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddigits
- dgiits
- diggits
- digist
- digitss
- digitts
- digtis
- diigts
- idgits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digits - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "digits", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).