foots
/fʊts/
"foots" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foots” is uncommon English (frequency #74,103 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,103
- frequency rank, English
- 18,613
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of foot
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foots |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fʊts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “foots” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
foots is uncommon English at frequency #74,103 among 18,613 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fʊts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of foot".
foots doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is foots, spelled F-O-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of foot
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 “foots”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is F-O-O-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /fʊts/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.