bodyline
"bodyline" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bodyline” is uncommon English (frequency #95,753 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,753
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bodyline · bodyline · English
bodyline · rank #95,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,753
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bonanno
Nearest frequency peer: Bonanno (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “bodyline”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blobby
blobby
4,252 corpus weight
- blowpipe
blowpipe
4,251 corpus weight
- bodyline
bodyline
4,248 corpus weight
- Bonanno
Bonanno
4,246 corpus weight
- botts
botts
4,244 corpus weight
- Bourges
Bourges
4,243 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bodyline” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bodyline |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bodyline” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bodyline is uncommon English at frequency #95,753 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.".
bodyline doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bodyline, spelled B-O-D-Y-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bodyline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).