foots
/fʊts/
"foots" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foots” is uncommon English (frequency #74,103 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,103
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of foot
Corpus desk
Index EN-foots · foots · English
foots · rank #74,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,103
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH footlocker
Nearest frequency peer: footlocker (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “foots”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- focusses
focusses
25,901 corpus weight
- footlocker
footlocker
25,899 corpus weight
- foots
foots
25,898 corpus weight
- fortuitously
fortuitously
25,897 corpus weight
- freestone
freestone
25,895 corpus weight
- Frenchy
Frenchy
25,894 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foots” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “foots” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foots is uncommon English at frequency #74,103 among 2,507 “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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