footmen
/ˈfʊt.mən/
"footmen" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“footmen” is uncommon English (frequency #82,306 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,306
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of footman
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | footmen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfʊt.mən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “footmen” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
footmen is uncommon English at frequency #82,306 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈfʊt.mən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of footman".
footmen has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is footmen, spelled F-O-O-T-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1plural of footman
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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Using “footmen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-O-T-M-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.