No body or nobody?
no body is a pronoun meaning “the words no and body, each in its own sense”; nobody is a pronoun meaning “Not any person; the logical negation of somebody”. no body is written as two words and nobody as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between no body and nobody?
| no body | nobody | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | pronoun | pronoun, noun |
| Meaning | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, body | Not any person; the logical negation of somebody informalA person dismissed as unimportant Something that has no body or an especially small one |
| Example | none recorded | I asked several people, but nobody knew how |
| Forms | none | nobuddy, nobudy |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/ /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/ /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 89 times per million words |
Sources: no body and nobody 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 no body and nobody
no body
- 1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, body
nobody
- 1
Not any person; the logical negation of somebody
I asked several people, but nobody knew how
- 2
informalA person dismissed as unimportant
- 3
Something that has no body or an especially small one
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, no body or nobody?
no body is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; nobody 89 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search no body vs nobody?
“no body vs nobody” is searched about 30 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“nobody vs no body”, “no body or nobody”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.