digestión

/[d̪ixesˈt̪jõn]/ noun

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.

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

Frequency rank visualization

Position of digestión in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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

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"

ddigestión10dgiestión9diegstión9digesitón9digesstión10digestinó9digestiónn10digesttión10
Misspelling Variants of "digestión"

Frequency rank: #23,387 in Spanish

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.