coltsfoot
noun
coltsfoot is a noun meaning “An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-L-T-S-F-O-O-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of coltsfoot is coltsfoots or coltsfeet.
What does coltsfoot mean?
noun
- 1
An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot.
- 2
Various flowering plants in the genus Petasites native to Europe or Asia.
- 3
Homogyne alpina (alpine coltsfoot or purple colt's-foot).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce coltsfoot?
Coltsfoot has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-coltsfoot.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of coltsfoot
- coltsfoots plural
- coltsfeet plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is coltsfoot?
Coltsfoot appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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).
Coltsfoot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Tussilago farfara:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tussilage |
| German | Huflattich |
| Portuguese | tussilagem, unha-de-cavalo, unha-de-asno |
| Spanish | tusilago, fárfara, pie de caballo, uña de caballo |
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 coltsfoot come from?
From Middle English coltisfote, coltys fot, equivalent to colt + -s- + foot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).