Bodyguard
The verdict
“Bodyguard” is uncommon French (frequency #87,382 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,382
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garde du corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bodyguard · Bodyguard · French
Bodyguard · rank #87,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,382
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bodybuilding
Nearest frequency peer: bodybuilding (-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 « Bodyguard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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bleutés
12,624 corpus weight
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blondeur
12,623 corpus weight
- bodybuilding
bodybuilding
12,620 corpus weight
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Bodyguard
12,619 corpus weight
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Bonald
12,617 corpus weight
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bored
12,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Bodyguard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bodyguard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Bodyguard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Bodyguard is uncommon French at frequency #87,382 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Garde du corps.".
Bodyguard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Bodyguard, spelled B-O-D-Y-G-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Garde du corps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bodyguard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Klaus ist mein Bodyguard.
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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