body

\bo.di\

/\bo.di\/ noun

The verdict

“body” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,118
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sous-vêtement moulant féminin sans manche qui couvre d’une seule pièce tout le buste et l’entrejambe.

Corpus desk

Index FR-body · body · French

body · rank #13,118 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,118
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH Blois

Nearest frequency peer: Blois (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « body »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « body » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

body vs by
50% similar
body vs bon
50% similar
body vs box
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for body
PropertyValue
Headwordbody
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\bo.di\
Letters4
Frequency rank#13,118
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « body »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).bodyse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Blois » (#13,117), « bouc » (#13,119), « blair » (#13,116). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « body » est au #13,118. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around body (IPA \bo.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,118 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for body, with forms such as "bbody", "bdoy", and "boddy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bon", "box", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is body, spelled B-O-D-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sous-vêtement moulant féminin sans manche qui couvre d’une seule pièce tout le buste et l’entrejambe.
  2. 2
    Sous-vêtement porté par les bébés qui couvre le corps de la nuque aux fesses. Les manches peuvent être courtes ou longues.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il peut toujours mimer la chose en s'allongeant en body fluo et en respirant par le ventre, mais ça ne le fait pas vraiment.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • bbody
  • bdoy
  • boddy
  • bodyy
  • boyd
  • obdy

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of body - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

bbody1bdoy2boddy1bodyy1boyd2obdy2
Edit distance from "body"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "body"?
"body" is spelled B-O-D-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \bo.di\.
What does "body" mean?
As a noun, "body" means: Sous-vêtement moulant féminin sans manche qui couvre d’une seule pièce tout le buste et l’entrejambe.
What words are commonly confused with "body"?
"body" is commonly confused with "by", "bon", "box". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "body"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "body" is \bo.di\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "body" come from?
"body" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "body", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list