body

Pronunciation: ['bɒdi]

Average Rank: 404

Source: ECDICT

n. 身体, 人, 尸体, 主要部分, 团体 vt. 赋以形体 [计] 体

n. the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
n. a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
n. a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
n. an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects

Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk

Plural: bodies

Present Participle: bodying

Past: bodied

3rd Person: bodies

Past Participle: bodied

Word Frequency Rankings

#262

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 97.4% (Top 97.4% most frequent)

97.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#618

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 93.8% (Top 93.8% most frequent)

93.8%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#333

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 96.7% (Top 96.7% most frequent)

96.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.