Which to use
“digital” is an adjective and “digitale” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #6,077
- “digital” frequency rank
- #12,764
- “digitale” frequency rank
- 18841
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | digital | digitale |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui appartient aux doigts. | Plante de la famille des Scrophulariacées, dont la fleur en longs épis pourpres ressemble quelque peu à un doigt de gant. |
Same sound, different letters: digital vs digitale
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: digital vs digitale
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: digital and digitale carry the same recorded pronunciation, \di.ʒi.tal\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “digital” sits inside “digitale”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18841, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
digital is recorded at frequency rank #6,077, classified as anadj, pronounced \di.ʒi.tal\. digitale is at rank #12,764, tagged as anoun, pronounced \di.ʒi.tal\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 18841, this pair ranks #376,312 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of digital vs digitale
Shared letters: adgilt. Private to "digital": -. Private to "digitale": e.
"digital" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "digitale" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "digital" and "digitale" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "digital" vs "digitale" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "digital" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "digitale" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #376,312 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "digital" and "digitale" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "digitale vs digitaux". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #376,312 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.