Boddy
"boddy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Boddy” is uncommon English (frequency #84,038 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,038
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-boddy · Boddy · English
Boddy · rank #84,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,038
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bobbitt
Nearest frequency peer: bobbitt (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Boddy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blithering
blithering
15,966 corpus weight
- blunderbuss
blunderbuss
15,965 corpus weight
- bobbitt
bobbitt
15,964 corpus weight
- Boddy
Boddy
15,963 corpus weight
- bodkin
bodkin
15,962 corpus weight
- boonies
boonies
15,960 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Boddy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Boddy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Boddy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Boddy is uncommon English at frequency #84,038 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Boddy, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: English, Scottish and Irish surname, variant of Body. The correct English form is Boddy, spelled B-O-D-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
English, Scottish and Irish surname, variant of Body.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).