footrot
noun
footrot is a noun meaning “A hoof infection, infectious pododermatitis, that is commonly found in sheep, goat, and cattle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-R-O-T, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of footrot is footrots.
What does footrot mean?
noun
- 1
A hoof infection, infectious pododermatitis, that is commonly found in sheep, goat, and cattle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of footrot
- footrots plural
- foot rot
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is footrot?
Footrot appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Where does footrot come from?
From foot + rot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).