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footer

foot·er/ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/noun, verb

footer is spelled F-O-O-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (foot·er). It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, footer means “A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of footer is footers.

How many letters and syllables are in footer?

Letters6: F-O-O-T-E-R
Syllables2: foot·er
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 footer?

Footer appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 footer?

  • /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/

Footer has 2 syllables, split foot·er in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-footer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of footer

  • footers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • footering participle, present
  • footered participle, past
  • foutre
  • fouter

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does footer mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA footgoer; pedestrian

  2. 2

    A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)

  3. 3

    Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.

    The new boat is a six-footer.

  4. 4

    Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.

    a right-footer

  5. 5

    UKslangFootball / soccer.

  6. 6

    UKslangA football.

verb

  1. 1

    IrelandScotlandslangTo meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Footer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpied de page (line of information at the bottom of a page), foot (slang: soccer), glander, glandouiller (slang: to meddle)
GermanFußzeile (line of information at the bottom of a page)
Spanishpie de página (line of information at the bottom of a page), perder el tiempo (slang: to meddle)

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 footer come from?

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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