# foot

> English word · Noun · IPA /fʊt/ · frequency rank #1,426

## Definitions
1. A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
2. Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
3. Travel by walking.
4. The base or bottom of anything.
5. The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
6. The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
7. A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
8. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
9. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
10. A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
11. A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
12. Foot soldiers; infantry.
13. The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
14. The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
15. The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
16. The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
17. The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
18. The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
19. The bottom edge of a sail.
20. The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
21. In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
22. The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
23. The globular lower domain of a protein.
24. The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
25. Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
26. Recognized condition; rank; footing.

## Etymology
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.
Cognates
*Scots fit (“foot”)
*Yola voote (“foot”)
*North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”)
*Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”)
*West Frisian foet (“foot”)
*Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”)
*Dutch voet (“foot”)
*Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”)
*German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”)
*German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”)
*Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”)
*Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”)
*Mòcheno vuas (“foot”)
*Vilamovian füs (“foot”)
*Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”)
*Danish fod (“foot”)
*Faroese, Icelandic fótur (“foot”)
*Jamtish fót (“foot”)
*Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish fot (“foot”)
*Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”).

## Easily confused with
- **for** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-for)
- **fox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fox)
- **fro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fro)
- **foy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-foy)
- **fut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fut)
- **fou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fou)
- **from** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-from)
- **four** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-four)
- **form** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-form)
- **ford** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-ford)
- **fort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fort)
- **foul** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-foul)
- **fork** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fork)
- **frog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-frog)
- **fret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fret)
- **frat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-frat)
- **fowl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-fowl)
- **foxy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-foxy)
- **Foxx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-foxx)
- **FOSS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foot-vs-foss)

## Common misspellings (5)
`ffoot`, `foott`, `fot`, `foto`, `ofot`

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