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digital

French, adjective/di.ʒi.tal/

digital is spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,071st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Digital is a French adjective meaning “fingers, toes; digital” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui appartient aux doigts”.

What does digital mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    fingers, toes; digital

  2. 2

    proscribeddigital (not analog)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui appartient aux doigts.

adjective: 1. Numérique, au sens de comprenant des composants électroniques qui fonctionnent en mode binaire, par opposition à un fonctionnement analogique. 2. Numérique, au sens d'informatique, qui est constitué fondamentalement des zéros et de uns.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of digital

  • digitale feminine
  • digitaux masculine plural
  • digitales feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce digital?

  • /di.ʒi.tal/
  • \di.ʒi.tal\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to digital

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is digital in French?

digital appears 11 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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