body
\bo.di\
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
- Bein
Bein
86,886 corpus weight
- blair
blair
86,885 corpus weight
- Blois
Blois
86,884 corpus weight
- body
body
86,883 corpus weight
- bouc
bouc
86,882 corpus weight
- Brabant
Brabant
86,881 corpus weight
What this shows « body » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | body |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo.di\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « body »
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
- 1Sous-vêtement moulant féminin sans manche qui couvre d’une seule pièce tout le buste et l’entrejambe.
- 2Sous-vêtement porté par les bébés qui couvre le corps de la nuque aux fesses. Les manches peuvent être courtes ou longues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how body appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).