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clubfoot

noun

clubfoot is spelled C-L-U-B-F-O-O-T: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, clubfoot means “A congenital deformity of the foot in which the ankle, heel and toes are twisted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of clubfoot is clubfeet.

How many letters and syllables are in clubfoot?

Letters8: C-L-U-B-F-O-O-T
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 117,098th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is clubfoot?

Clubfoot appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of clubfoot

  • clubfeet plural
  • club foot
  • club-foot

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does clubfoot mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A congenital deformity of the foot in which the ankle, heel and toes are twisted.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Clubfoot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense foot malformation:

LanguageWords
Frenchpied bot
GermanKlumpfuß
Portuguesepé torto

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does clubfoot come from?

From club + foot.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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