flatfooted
verb, adjective
flatfooted is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of flatfoot (Alternative form of flat-footed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-F-O-O-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flatfooted mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of flatfoot (Alternative form of flat-footed).
adjective
- 1
Alternative form of flat-footed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flatfooted
- more flatfooted comparative
- most flatfooted superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatfooted?
Flatfooted appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).
Where does flatfooted come from?
From flatfoot + -ed (suffix forming past tense forms of regular verbs).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).