footrest
/ˈfʊtˌɹɛst/noun
footrest is a noun meaning “A support on which to rest the feet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-R-E-S-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of footrest is footrests.
What does footrest mean?
noun
- 1
A support on which to rest the feet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce footrest?
- US /ˈfʊtˌɹɛst/
Footrest has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-footrest.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of footrest
- footrests plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is footrest?
Footrest appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Footrest in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a support on which to rest the feet:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | repose-pied |
| German | Fußstütze |
| Portuguese | apoio para os pés |
| Spanish | reposapiés |
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 footrest come from?
From foot + rest.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).