digestion

\di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\

/\di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“digestion” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,711
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de digérer : processus au cours duquel un organisme vivant élabore les aliments mangés en nutriments, les assimile, et défèque le rebut.

Corpus desk

Index FR-digestion · digestion · French

digestion · rank #18,711 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,711
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dell

Nearest frequency peer: dell (-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 « digestion »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « digestion » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

digestion vs direction
78% similar
digestion vs digestive
78% similar
digestion vs digestif
78% similar

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

Key facts for digestion
PropertyValue
Headworddigestion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#18,711
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « digestion »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.digestionse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dell » (#18,710), « diminuent » (#18,712), « danseuses » (#18,709). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « digestion » est au #18,711. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around digestion (IPA \di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,711 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for digestion, with forms such as "ddigestion", "dgiestion", and "diegstion". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "direction", "digestive", "digestif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is digestion, spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de digérer : processus au cours duquel un organisme vivant élabore les aliments mangés en nutriments, les assimile, et défèque le rebut.
  2. 2
    Opération ayant pour but d’extraire, par macération dans un liquide approprié, certains éléments solubles contenus dans une substance donnée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how digestion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On fait aussi du pain, mais d'une digestion assez difficile, avec du seigle, de l’orge et même de l’avoine ; […].
  2. Je sens mes intestins qui ronronnent légèrement. La digestion sans heurts est le plus grand facteur d'activité. Le cerveau s'emplit avec le ventre et l'optimisme a sa source dans la béatitude des tripes.

Antonyms

indigestion

This word in other languages

digestion(English)Verdauung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddigestion
  • dgiestion
  • diegstion
  • digesiton
  • digesstion
  • digestino
  • digestionn
  • digestoin
  • digesttion
  • digetsion
  • diggestion
  • digsetion
  • idgestion

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digestion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddigestion1dgiestion2diegstion2digesiton2digesstion1digestino2digestionn1digestoin2
Edit distance from "digestion"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "digestion"?
"digestion" is spelled D-I-G-E-S-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\.
What does "digestion" mean?
As a noun, "digestion" means: Action de digérer : processus au cours duquel un organisme vivant élabore les aliments mangés en nutriments, les assimile, et défèque le rebut.
What words are commonly confused with "digestion"?
"digestion" is commonly confused with "direction", "digestive", "digestif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "digestion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "digestion" is \di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "digestion" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

diminuent#18,712danseuses#18,709consultez#18,695dépressif#18,729

Similar misspelling depth

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

déborder13 variantsCrawford13 variantsdécliner13 variantsdéviation13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list