legislative body

noun

"legislative-body" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“legislative body” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.

Corpus desk

Index EN-legislative-body · legislative body · English

legislative body · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for legislative body
PropertyValue
Headwordlegislative body
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “legislative body” in English

legislative bodyfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

legislative body is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for legislative body in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is legislative body, spelled L-E-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-V-E- -B-O-D-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.
  2. 2
    Its equivalent, exercising legislative power at a substate administrative level.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how legislative body appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Under unicameral constitutions the legislative bodies are single assemblies, in the bicameral Westminster model the legislative body is a parliament comprising two houses or chambers

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "legislative body"?
"legislative body" is spelled L-E-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-V-E- -B-O-D-Y.
What does "legislative body" mean?
As a noun, "legislative body" means: A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.
What language does "legislative body" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list