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floorspace

noun

floorspace is a noun meaning “The surface area of the floor in a building” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-O-R-S-P-A-C-E, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of floorspace is floorspaces.

What does floorspace mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The surface area of the floor in a building.

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

Forms of floorspace

  • floorspaces plural
  • floor space
  • floor-space

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

How common is floorspace?

Floorspace appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 floorspace come from?

From floor + space.

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