somebody

Other forms of somebody

plural

somebodies·

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 somebody

What does somebody mean?

somebody means "a human being".

How many syllables are in somebody?

somebody has 3 syllables: someb-o-dy. The stress falls on "someb". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmˌbɑdi/.

What is another word for somebody?

Close synonyms include person, individual, someone, mortal, soul. 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 somebody a common word?

somebody is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with somebody?

5 words rhyme with somebody. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.