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jody

/ˈd͡ʒoʊdi/noun

jody is spelled J-O-D-Y: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jody means “A Jody call” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jody is jodies.

How many letters and syllables are in jody?

Letters4: J-O-D-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is jody?

Jody appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th 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 jody?

  • US /ˈd͡ʒoʊdi/

Jody has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-Jody.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with jody?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as jody from its last stressed vowel (/oʊdi/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of jody

  • jodies plural

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

What does jody mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A Jody call.

noun

as Jody
  1. 1

    USslangThe man who seduces a soldier or inmate's wife or girlfriend during his absence.

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

Where does jody come from?

From Jody, a generic name for males romancing soldiers' girlfriends while they are away from home.

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

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