# footy vs forty

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### footy
*noun · IPA /ˈfʊti/ · frequency rank #23,834*
Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

### forty
*num · IPA /ˈfɔːti/ · frequency rank #5,130*
The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/footy-vs-forty