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bodyfat

noun

bodyfat is spelled B-O-D-Y-F-A-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bodyfat means “Fat stored in the form of adipose tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in bodyfat?

Letters7: B-O-D-Y-F-A-T
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bodyfat?

Bodyfat appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of bodyfat

  • body fat

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bodyfat mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Fat stored in the form of adipose tissue.

    bodyfat distribution

  2. 2

    informalBody fat percentage.

    to have low bodyfat

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate bodyfat?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of bodyfat: BF.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Bodyfat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgraisse corporelle, masse graisseuse (adipose tissue), indice de masse grasse (body fat percentage)
GermanKörperfett (adipose tissue), Körperfettanteil (body fat percentage)
Portuguesegordura corporal (adipose tissue)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does bodyfat come from?

From body + fat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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