body temperature
"body-temperature" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“body temperature” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The temperature of the body of a person or animal, especially when used as a simple guide to health.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | body temperature |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “body temperature” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
body temperature is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The temperature of the body of a person or animal, especially when used as a simple guide to health.".
Zero misspellings are on record for body temperature in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is body temperature, spelled B-O-D-Y- -T-E-M-P-E-R-A-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1The temperature of the body of a person or animal, especially when used as a simple guide to health.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “body temperature”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-O-D-Y- -T-E-M-P-E-R-A-T-U-R-E - 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.