footballing
adjective, verb
footballing is an adjective meaning “Relating to the sport of football” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-B-A-L-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does footballing mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to the sport of football.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of football
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is footballing?
Footballing appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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).
Footballing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | futbolístico |
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 footballing come from?
From football + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).