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Yes. The word body is a Scrabble US word. The word body is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (2 found)

BODY,DOBY,

3-letter words (6 found)

BOD,BOY,DOB,DOY,YOB,YOD,

2-letter words (7 found)

BO,BY,DO,OB,OD,OY,YO,

You can make 15 words from body according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of body

body obdy bdoy dboy odby doby boyd obyd byod ybod oybd yobd bdyo dbyo bydo ybdo dybo ydbo odyb doyb oydb yodb dyob ydob

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word body. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in body.

Definitions and meaning of body

body

Alternative forms

  • bodie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒdi/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑdi/, [ˈbɑɾi]
  • Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
  • Hyphenation: bod‧y
  • Rhymes: -ɒdi

Noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

  1. Physical frame.
    1. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
      I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
    2. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]
      The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
    3. A corpse. [from 13th c.]
      Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
    4. (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
      • Folio Society 1973, page 463:
      What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
    5. (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
  2. Main section.
    1. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
      The boxer took a blow to the body.
    2. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]
      The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
    3. (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]
      Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
    4. The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
    1. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]
      In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
    2. (architecture, of a church) nave.
  3. Coherent group.
    1. A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
      I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
    3. An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]
      The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
    4. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]
  4. Material entity.
    1. Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
    2. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
    3. (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]
    1. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
  5. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
  6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:body
  • See also Thesaurus:corpse

Derived terms

Pages starting with “body”.

Translations

See also

  • corporal
  • corporeal

Verb

body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)

  1. (transitive, often with forth) To give body or shape to something.
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. (transitive) To embody.
  4. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
    1. (by extension) To utterly defeat someone.

References

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “body v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

  • BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbodɪ]
  • Rhymes: -odɪ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧dy

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English body, bodysuit.

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

  1. bodysuit, leotard

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

body

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod

Anagrams

  • doby

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English body.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.di/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧dy

Noun

body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)

  1. A leotard.
  2. Body, substance.

Finnish

Etymology

From English body.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbody/, [ˈbo̞dy]
  • IPA(key): /ˈbodi/, [ˈbo̞di]
  • Rhymes: -ody
  • Homophone: bodi
  • Syllabification(key): bo‧dy

Noun

body

  1. snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)
    Synonym: potkupuku
  2. bodystocking (one-piece article of lingerie)
    Synonyms: bodi, body stocking

Declension

Pronunciation ˈbody:

Further reading

  • “body”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English bodysuit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.di/
  • Rhymes: -ɔdi
  • Hyphenation: bò‧dy

Noun

body m (invariable)

  1. leotard
    Synonym: calzamaglia

Further reading

  • body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from bodysuit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.dɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔdɨ
  • Syllabification: bo‧dy

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

  1. bodysuit, leotard

Further reading

  • body in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • body in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English body.

Noun

body n (plural body-uri)

  1. bodysuit

Declension

Scots

Alternative forms

  • bodie

Etymology

From Middle English body, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).

Noun

body (plural bodies)

  1. body
  2. person, human being

Spanish

Noun

body m (plural bodys or bodies)

  1. Alternative spelling of bodi

Further reading

  • “body”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org