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boyshorts

noun

boyshorts is spelled B-O-Y-S-H-O-R-T-S: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boyshorts means “A female undergarment that covers the hips like a pair of shorts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in boyshorts?

Letters9: B-O-Y-S-H-O-R-T-S
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th 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 boyshorts?

Boyshorts appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

How do you pronounce boyshorts?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-boyshorts.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of boyshorts

  • boy shorts
  • boy-shorts

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

What does boyshorts mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A female undergarment that covers the hips like a pair of shorts.

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

Boyshorts in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense underwear:

LanguageWords
Frenchshorty, garçonne
GermanBoxerslip

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 boyshorts come from?

From boy + shorts.

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

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