indigestion

/\ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,108

in French word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

indigestion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mauvaise digestion. Pronounced \ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\. Often confused with ingestion and indignation.

Key facts for indigestion
PropertyValue
Headwordindigestion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#45,108
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of indigestion in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for indigestion is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #45,108 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mauvaise digestion.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for indigestion, with forms such as "idnigestion", "inddigestion", and "indgiestion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ingestion", "indignation", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is indigestion, spelled I-N-D-I-G-E-S-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mauvaise digestion.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: idnigestion,inddigestion,indgiestion,indiegstion,indigesiton,indigesstion,indigestino,indigestionn,indigestoin,indigesttion,indigetsion,indiggestion,indigsetion,inidgestion,inndigestion,nidigestion

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for indigestion

Misspelling Variants of "indigestion"

idnigestion11inddigestion12indgiestion11indiegstion11indigesiton11indigesstion12indigestino11indigestionn12
Misspelling Variants of "indigestion"

Frequency rank: #45,108 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "indigestion"?
"indigestion" is spelled I-N-D-I-G-E-S-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\.
What does "indigestion" mean?
As a noun, "indigestion" means: Mauvaise digestion.
What words are commonly confused with "indigestion"?
"indigestion" is commonly confused with "ingestion", "indignation". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "indigestion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "indigestion" is \ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "indigestion" come from?
"indigestion" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.