move one's bowels
"move-one-s-bowels" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“move one's bowels” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To excrete feces from one's bowels: to defecate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | move one's bowels |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “move one's bowels” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for move one's bowels is 17 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To excrete feces from one's bowels: to defecate.".
No misspelling variants are generated for move one's bowels in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is move one's bowels, spelled M-O-V-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -B-O-W-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1To excrete feces from one's bowels: to defecate.
This word in other languages
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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Using “move one's bowels”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-V-E- -O-N-E-'-S- -B-O-W-E-L-S - 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.