body-double
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "body-double", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "body-double" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "body-double" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
body double is aEnglishnoun. It means: A film stand-in for an actor, in scenes not involving the face, especially during scenes of nudity, or of dangerous activity.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | body double |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for body double is 11 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for body double in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: The psychological sense was coined by ADHD coach Linda Anderson in 1996. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is body double, spelled B-O-D-Y- -D-O-U-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A film stand-in for an actor, in scenes not involving the face, especially during scenes of nudity, or of dangerous activity.
- 2A political decoy; a person employed to impersonate a politician, in order to draw attention away from the real person or to take risks on their behalf.
- 3A person who is present nearby — or virtually connected to — a person with ADHD in order to increase their attention and focus.
Etymology
The psychological sense was coined by ADHD coach Linda Anderson in 1996.
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