football match
/ˈfʊtbɔl mæt͡ʃ/
"football-match" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“football match” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A single game of football between two teams.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | football match |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfʊtbɔl mæt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “football match” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
football match is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfʊtbɔl mæt͡ʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A single game of football between two teams.".
Zero misspellings are on record for football match in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is football match, spelled F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L- -M-A-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1A single game of football between two teams.
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.
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Using “football match”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L- -M-A-T-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈfʊtbɔl mæt͡ʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.