foot-and-mouth disease
"foot-and-mouth-disease" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foot-and-mouth disease” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foot-and-mouth-disease · foot-and-mouth disease · English
foot-and-mouth disease · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 22 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foot-and-mouth disease |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foot-and-mouth disease” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foot-and-mouth disease is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for foot-and-mouth disease in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is foot-and-mouth disease, spelled F-O-O-T---A-N-D---M-O-U-T-H- -D-I-S-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how foot-and-mouth disease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.