somebody: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 16 letter points · starts with S · ends with Y
Meaning of somebody
pron
Some unspecified person.
Example: Somebody has to clean this mess up.
Synonym of someone; an important person.
Example: He could have been somebody!
Listed forms: somebuddy, sombuddy, sombudy, sumbody, sumbuddy, sby, sb.
Source: Wiktionary — somebody.
noun
Any person.
A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
Example: I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
Listed forms: somebodies, somebodys, somebuddy, sombuddy, sombudy, sumbody, sumbuddy, sby.
Source: Wiktionary — somebody.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for somebody.
noun
a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is somebody in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of somebody
S(1) + O(1) + M(3) + E(1) + B(3) + O(1) + D(2) + Y(4) = 16 points.
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Anagrams of somebody
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from somebody
107 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in somebody. Showing up to 24, longest first.