bodybuilding
The verdict
“bodybuilding” is uncommon French (frequency #87,381 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,381
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Culturisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bodybuilding · bodybuilding · French
bodybuilding · rank #87,381 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,381
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bodyguard
Nearest frequency peer: Bodyguard (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bodybuilding »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bleutés
bleutés
12,624 corpus weight
- blondeur
blondeur
12,623 corpus weight
- bodybuilding
bodybuilding
12,620 corpus weight
- Bodyguard
Bodyguard
12,619 corpus weight
- Bonald
Bonald
12,617 corpus weight
- bored
bored
12,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bodybuilding » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bodybuilding |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,381 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bodybuilding » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bodybuilding is uncommon French at frequency #87,381 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Culturisme.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bodybuilding in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bodybuilding, spelled B-O-D-Y-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Culturisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bodybuilding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire du bodybuilding.
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); 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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