bodyline
"bodyline" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bodyline” is uncommon English (frequency #95,753 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,753
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “bodyline” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bodyline is uncommon English at frequency #95,753 among 31,241 “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.
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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Using “bodyline”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-D-Y-L-I-N-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.