Body weight or bodyweight?
body weight is a noun meaning “Alternative form of bodyweight”; bodyweight is a noun meaning “The weight or mass of an organism”. body weight is written as two words and bodyweight as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between body weight and bodyweight?
| body weight | bodyweight | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, adjective |
| Meaning | Alternative form of bodyweight | The weight or mass of an organism Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of physical exercise |
| Example | none recorded | C57BL/6 mice (postnatal day 45–100) expressing enhanced GFP under the Thy-1 promoter in a small subset of cortical neurons (line GFP-M 18 )… |
| Forms | none | bodyweights |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 2 million words |
Sources: body weight and bodyweight in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of body weight and bodyweight
body weight
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Alternative form of bodyweight
bodyweight
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The weight or mass of an organism
C57BL/6 mice (postnatal day 45–100) expressing enhanced GFP under the Thy-1 promoter in a small subset of cortical neurons (line GFP-M 18 ) were anaesthetized with an…
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Employing (only) a person's own weight as resistance to movement for the purpose of physical exercise
Without access to a gym, Steve focused on bodyweight work
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, body weight or bodyweight?
body weight is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; bodyweight about once in every 2 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).