footpad
noun, verb
footpad is a noun meaning “The soft underside of an animal's paw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-P-A-D, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of footpad is footpads.
What does footpad mean?
noun
- 1
The soft underside of an animal's paw.
- 2
A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
- 3
archaicA thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
- 4
AustraliaAn unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.
verb
- 1
archaicTo rob travellers on the road.
- 2
To sneak on foot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce footpad?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_footpad.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of footpad
- footpads plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- foot-pad
- foot pad
- footpadding participle, present
- footpadded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is footpad?
Footpad appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 180,281st 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).
Footpad in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense thief on foot who robs on the road:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Straßenräuber |
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 footpad come from?
From foot + pad.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).