digitale

\di.ʒi.tal\

/\di.ʒi.tal\/ noun

The verdict

“digitale” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,764. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,764
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Scrophulariacées, dont la fleur en longs épis pourpres ressemble quelque peu à un doigt de gant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-digitale · digitale · French

digitale · rank #12,764 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,764
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH diffamation

Nearest frequency peer: diffamation (-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 « digitale »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « digitale » 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).

digitale vs digitaux
75% similar
digitale vs digitales
89% similar
digitale vs digital
88% similar

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

Key facts for digitale
PropertyValue
Headworddigitale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.ʒi.tal\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,764
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « digitale »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).digitalese 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 « diffamation » (#12,763), « Deutsche » (#12,762), « donnerai » (#12,766). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « digitale » est au #12,764. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around digitale (IPA \di.ʒi.tal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,764 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for digitale, with forms such as "ddigitale", "dgiitale", and "diggitale". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "digitaux", "digitales", "digital", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is digitale, spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante de la famille des Scrophulariacées, dont la fleur en longs épis pourpres ressemble quelque peu à un doigt de gant.
  2. 2
    Extrait diurétique de cette plante, qui diminue la fréquence des battements du cœur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle retrouvait aux mêmes places les digitales et les ravenelles, les bouquets d’orties entourant les gros cailloux, et les plaques de lichen le long des trois fenêtres;
  2. Un chemin de traverse s’ouvrait à une courte distance, elle le prit et à une cinquantaine de mètres de la route, elle trouva une petite clairière herbée, dont la lisière était fleurie de belles digitales violettes.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddigitale
  • dgiitale
  • diggitale
  • digiatle
  • digitael
  • digitalle
  • digitlae
  • digittale
  • digtiale
  • diigtale
  • idgitale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of digitale - 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.

ddigitale1dgiitale2diggitale1digiatle2digitael2digitalle1digitlae2digittale1
Edit distance from "digitale"

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 "digitale"?
"digitale" is spelled D-I-G-I-T-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \di.ʒi.tal\.
What does "digitale" mean?
As a noun, "digitale" means: Plante de la famille des Scrophulariacées, dont la fleur en longs épis pourpres ressemble quelque peu à un doigt de gant.
What words are commonly confused with "digitale"?
"digitale" is commonly confused with "digitaux", "digitales", "digital". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "digitale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "digitale" is \di.ʒi.tal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "digitale" come from?
"digitale" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "digitale", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list