digestión

[d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]

/[d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]/ noun

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The verdict

“digestión” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #23,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,387
frequency rank, Spanish
4,885
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proceso mediante el cual los animales superiores mastican, trituran, tragan y disuelven los alimentos, para finalmente asimilarlos por el tubo digestivo.

Corpus desk

Index ES-digestion · digestión · Spanish

digestión · rank #23,387 · 13 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,387
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,885
  • PHOTO-FINISH distinguidos

Nearest frequency peer: distinguidos (+2 rank slots)

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.

Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “digestión”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

What this shows “digestión” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

digestión vs digestivo
78% similar
digestión vs direction
67% similar
digestión vs digestivos
70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for digestión
PropertyValue
Headworddigestión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,387
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “digestión”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).digestióncae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “distinguidos” (#23,389), “Dublín” (#23,390), “deslizamiento” (#23,383). Entre 4,885 lemas con “D”, “digestión” va en #23,387. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around digestión (IPA [d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,387 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for digestión, with forms such as "ddigestión", "dgiestión", and "diegstión". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "digestivo", "direction", "digestivos", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is digestión, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-Ó-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Proceso mediante el cual los animales superiores mastican, trituran, tragan y disuelven los alimentos, para finalmente asimilarlos por el tubo digestivo.
  2. 2
    Proceso de disolución y absorción de sustancias por parte de los seres vivos.
  3. 3
    Proceso biológico, químico o físico que convierte una sustancia en otra de moléculas más pequeñas.

This word in other languages

digestion(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddigestión
  • dgiestión
  • diegstión
  • digesitón
  • digesstión
  • digestinó
  • digestiónn
  • digesttión
  • digestóin
  • digetsión
  • diggestión
  • digsetión
  • idgestión

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digestión - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddigestión1dgiestión2diegstión2digesitón2digesstión1digestinó2digestiónn1digesttión1
Edit distance from "digestión"

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "digestión"?
"digestión" is spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪ixesˈt̪jõn].
What does "digestión" mean?
As a noun, "digestión" means: Proceso mediante el cual los animales superiores mastican, trituran, tragan y disuelven los alimentos, para finalmente asimilarlos por el tubo digestivo.
What words are commonly confused with "digestión"?
"digestión" is commonly confused with "digestivo", "direction", "digestivos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "digestión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "digestión" is [d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "digestión" come from?
"digestión" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "digestión", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Descartes#23,379demagogia#23,375estrenado#23,402examinado#23,407

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

cucharada13 variantsconjetura13 variantsconfundió13 variantscausantes13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list