footrace
noun, verb
footrace is a noun meaning “A race run on foot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-R-A-C-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of footrace is footraces.
What does footrace mean?
noun
- 1
A race run on foot.
verb
- 1
To race on foot.
- 2
To race (someone or something) on foot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce footrace?
- US
Footrace has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-footrace.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of footrace
- footraces plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- footracing participle, present
- footraced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is footrace?
Footrace appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Footrace in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense race run on foot:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | course à pied |
| German | Wettlauf |
| Spanish | carrera |
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 footrace come from?
From foot + race.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).