digestión
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,387
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
digestión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Proceso mediante el cual los animales superiores mastican, trituran, tragan y disuelven los alimentos, para finalmente asimilarlos por el tubo digestivo. Pronounced [d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]. Often confused with digestivo and direction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | digestión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪ixesˈt̪jõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for digestión is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,387 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for digestión, with forms such as "ddigestión", "dgiestión", and "diegstión". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "digestivo", "direction", "digestivos", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is digestión, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proceso mediante el cual los animales superiores mastican, trituran, tragan y disuelven los alimentos, para finalmente asimilarlos por el tubo digestivo.
- 2Proceso de disolución y absorción de sustancias por parte de los seres vivos.
- 3Proceso biológico, químico o físico que convierte una sustancia en otra de moléculas más pequeñas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddigestión,dgiestión,diegstión,digesitón,digesstión,digestinó,digestiónn,digesttión,digestóin,digetsión,diggestión,digsetión,idgestión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for digestión
Misspelling Variants of "digestión"
Frequency rank: #23,387 in Spanish
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