barefooted
/ˈbɛː(ə).fʊt.ɪd/
"barefooted" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barefooted” is uncommon English (frequency #83,038 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,038
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
Corpus desk
Index EN-barefooted · barefooted · English
barefooted · rank #83,038 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,038
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH barnstorming
Nearest frequency peer: barnstorming (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “barefooted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bankable
bankable
16,968 corpus weight
- Bann
Bann
16,967 corpus weight
- barbiturate
barbiturate
16,966 corpus weight
- barefooted
barefooted
16,963 corpus weight
- barnstorming
barnstorming
16,961 corpus weight
- beadwork
beadwork
16,958 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “barefooted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barefooted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈbɛː(ə).fʊt.ɪd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barefooted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barefooted is uncommon English at frequency #83,038 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈbɛː(ə).fʊt.ɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.".
Zero misspellings are on record for barefooted in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bare + footed. The correct English form is barefooted, spelled B-A-R-E-F-O-O-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how barefooted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.
There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women.
Etymology
From bare + footed.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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