footlocker
/ˈfʊʔ.laːkɚ/
"footlocker" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“footlocker” is uncommon English (frequency #74,102 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,102
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A long, rectangular trunk or similar container that lies flat on the floor, especially one used for personal belongings and kept at the foot of a bed, commonly used in barracks and dormitories.
Corpus desk
Index EN-footlocker · footlocker · English
footlocker · rank #74,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,102
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH foots
Nearest frequency peer: foots (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “footlocker”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fitful
fitful
25,904 corpus weight
- focusses
focusses
25,901 corpus weight
- footlocker
footlocker
25,899 corpus weight
- foots
foots
25,898 corpus weight
- fortuitously
fortuitously
25,897 corpus weight
- freestone
freestone
25,895 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “footlocker” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | footlocker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfʊʔ.laːkɚ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “footlocker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
footlocker is uncommon English at frequency #74,102 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfʊʔ.laːkɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A long, rectangular trunk or similar container that lies flat on the floor, especially one used for personal belongings and kept at the foot of a bed, commonly used in barracks and dormitories.".
footlocker has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From foot + locker. The correct English form is footlocker, spelled F-O-O-T-L-O-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A long, rectangular trunk or similar container that lies flat on the floor, especially one used for personal belongings and kept at the foot of a bed, commonly used in barracks and dormitories.
Etymology
From foot + locker.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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