bodycon

adj

"bodycon" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“bodycon” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.

Corpus desk

Index EN-bodycon · bodycon · English

bodycon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for bodycon
PropertyValue
Headwordbodycon
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “bodycon” in English

bodyconranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bodycon is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.".

No misspelling variants are generated for bodycon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. The correct English form is bodycon, spelled B-O-D-Y-C-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how bodycon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. She has, of late, tried to tone down her usual fembot style – all bodycon dresses and pointed shoulders – with more interesting looks: a jumpsuit here, a pussybow there, a fluted sleeve there.

Etymology

From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bodycon"?
"bodycon" is spelled B-O-D-Y-C-O-N.
What does "bodycon" mean?
As an adjective, "bodycon" means: Figure-hugging, skintight, form-fitting.
What is the origin of the word "bodycon"?
From Japanese ボディコン (bodikon) (clipping of English body conscious), name of a fashion subculture among young Japanese women in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list