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indigeste

French, adjective/ɛ̃.di.ʒɛst/

indigeste is spelled I-N-D-I-G-E-S-T-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 44,377th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Indigeste is a French adjective meaning “indigestible; heavy on the stomach, stodgy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est difficile à digérer”.

What does indigeste mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    indigestible; heavy on the stomach, stodgy

  2. 2

    indigestible, heavy

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

How French dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Qui est difficile à digérer. 2. Qui est embrouillé, confus, mal ordonné, surtout en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.

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 indigeste

  • indigestes plural

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

How do you pronounce indigeste?

  • /ɛ̃.di.ʒɛst/
  • \ɛ̃.di.ʒɛst\

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

English words that translate to indigeste

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

How common is indigeste in French?

indigeste appears about once in every 2 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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