Bodi
"bodi" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bodi” is uncommon English (frequency #96,792 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,792
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bodi · Bodi · English
Bodi · rank #96,792 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,792
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Borda
Nearest frequency peer: Borda (+2 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 “Bodi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blackbox
blackbox
3,216 corpus weight
- blackheart
blackheart
3,215 corpus weight
- blares
blares
3,213 corpus weight
- Bodi
Bodi
3,209 corpus weight
- Borda
Borda
3,207 corpus weight
- Bramhall
Bramhall
3,203 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bodi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bodi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bodi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bodi is uncommon English at frequency #96,792 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 Bodi, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a Hungarian surname Bódi, from a short form of Bódizsár, a variant of the personal name Boldizsár, compare Baltazar. * Also as a Hungarian surname, from the adjective bódi (“fat, rotund”). * As an Italian surname, patronymic/plural of Bodo (of Germanic… The correct English form is Bodi, spelled B-O-D-I.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As a Hungarian surname Bódi, from a short form of Bódizsár, a variant of the personal name Boldizsár, compare Baltazar. * Also as a Hungarian surname, from the adjective bódi (“fat, rotund”). * As an Italian surname, patronymic/plural of Bodo (of Germanic origin, from *budô (“messenger”)), and from Bodio in Varese or Ticino. * As a French Canadian surname, variant of Beaudin, compare Bodie.
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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