digestif
\di.ʒɛs.tif\
The verdict
“digestif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,923. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,923
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert à la digestion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-digestif · digestif · French
digestif · rank #17,923 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,923
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dictionnaires
Nearest frequency peer: dictionnaires (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « digestif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dentaires
dentaires
82,082 corpus weight
- development
development
82,081 corpus weight
- dictionnair…
dictionnaires
82,079 corpus weight
- digestif
digestif
82,078 corpus weight
- dirigeante
dirigeante
82,076 corpus weight
- disparaitre
disparaitre
82,075 corpus weight
What this shows « digestif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | digestif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʒɛs.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « digestif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around digestif (IPA \di.ʒɛs.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,923 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for digestif, with forms such as "ddigestif", "dgiestif", and "diegstif". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "digestion", "digestifs", "digestive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is digestif, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à la digestion.
- 2Qui aide à la digestion, en parlant de certains remèdes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how digestif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce moment les convives se trouvaient dans cette heureuse disposition de paresse et de silence où nous met un repas exquis, quand nous avons un peu trop présumé de notre puissance digestive.
Même lorsqu'il n'y a pas eu de cautérisation des premières voies digestives, les lésions du gros intestin persistent longtemps.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddigestif
- dgiestif
- diegstif
- digesitf
- digesstif
- digestfi
- digestiff
- digesttif
- digetsif
- diggestif
- digsetif
- idgestif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digestif - 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.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "digestif", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).