Bodo
"bodo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bodo” is uncommon English (frequency #64,937 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,937
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A surname from Hungarian.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bodo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bodo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bodo is uncommon English at frequency #64,937 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from Hungarian.".
Bodo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As a Hungarian surname, Bodó, from the old name Bod or from a Slavic name meaning "to inspire" (see Buda). * As a Polish and Slovak surname Boďo, from the old Slavic name Ostrobod, from Proto-Slavic *ostrъ (“sharp”) + *bosti (“to sting, stab”). * As a Ger… The correct English form is Bodo, spelled B-O-D-O.
Definition
- 1A surname from Hungarian.
Etymology
* As a Hungarian surname, Bodó, from the old name Bod or from a Slavic name meaning "to inspire" (see Buda). * As a Polish and Slovak surname Boďo, from the old Slavic name Ostrobod, from Proto-Slavic *ostrъ (“sharp”) + *bosti (“to sting, stab”). * As a German surname, from the noun Bodo (“messenger”). This is also found in parts of France and Italy. * As a French surname, variant of Bodeau (from Old French boel (“gut, intestine”), from Late Latin botellus) and Thibodeau.
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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Using “Bodo”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-O-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.