footage
foot·age/ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/noun
footage is spelled F-O-O-T-A-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables (foot·age). It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, footage means “An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of footage is footages.
How many letters and syllables are in footage?
| Letters | 7: F-O-O-T-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: foot·age |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is footage?
Footage appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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).
How do you pronounce footage?
- /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
Footage has 2 syllables, split foot·age in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-footage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of footage
- footages plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does footage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
- 2
A measurement in feet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Footage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense amount of film that has been used:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pellicule enregistrée, métrage cinématographique, métrage |
| German | Filmmaterial, Filmmeter, Bandmaterial, Bildmaterial |
| Portuguese | material, metragem |
| Spanish | metraje, material, imágenes |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does footage come from?
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).