body heat
"body-heat" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“body heat” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Heat produced from within the body of a (warmblooded) animal as opposed to absorbed from the environment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-body-heat · body heat · English
body heat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | body heat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “body heat” in English
Rare enough to double-check
body heat is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Heat produced from within the body of a (warmblooded) animal as opposed to absorbed from the environment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for body heat in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is body heat, spelled B-O-D-Y- -H-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1Heat produced from within the body of a (warmblooded) animal as opposed to absorbed from the environment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how body heat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The huge open gymnasium was cold. Only after the [weightlifting] competition was in progress did the air warm up from body heat.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.