bod

Other forms of bod

plural

bods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bod

What does bod mean?

bod means "alternative names for the body of a human being".

How many syllables are in bod?

bod has 1 syllable: bod.

What is another word for bod?

Close synonyms include human body, physical body, material body, soma, build. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bod a common word?

bod is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.