# feet

> English word · Noun · IPA /fiːt/ · frequency rank #1,105

## Definitions
1. plural of foot

## Etymology
From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).

## Easily confused with
- **few** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-few)
- **fit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fit)
- **foe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-foe)
- **FEI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fei)
- **fer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fer)
- **fey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fey)
- **fez** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fez)
- **fem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fem)
- **fen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fen)
- **FES** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fes)
- **FET** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fet)
- **feu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-feu)
- **FTE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fte)
- **fut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fut)
- **fie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fie)
- **free** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-free)
- **felt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-felt)
- **foot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-foot)
- **fell** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-fell)
- **flat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/feet-vs-flat)

## Common misspellings (3)
`efet`, `feett`, `ffeet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/feet