legislative body
"legislative-body" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“legislative body” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legislative body |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “legislative body” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for legislative body is 16 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1A political institution which holds the legislative power in a state, and often controls the executive power.
- 2Its equivalent, exercising legislative power at a substate administrative level.
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.
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- The one correct English spelling is L-E-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-V-E- -B-O-D-Y - 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.