body double

noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

body double is aFrenchnoun. It means: Doublure.

Key facts for body double
PropertyValue
Headwordbody double
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

body double is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for body double is 11 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for body double in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is body double, spelled B-O-D-Y- -D-O-U-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Doublure.
  2. 2
    Sosie destiné à détourner l’attention de la vraie personne (pour semer les journalistes, pour faire croire qu’elle est à un autre endroit, pour la protéger).
  3. 3
    Doublure corporelle : personne présente, physiquement ou en télétravail, aux côtés d’un ou une TDAH et dont la présence permet d’améliorer ses capacités d’attention et de concentration.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "body double"?
"body double" is spelled B-O-D-Y- -D-O-U-B-L-E.
What does "body double" mean?
As a noun, "body double" means: Doublure.
What language does "body double" come from?
"body double" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.