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footsore

adjective

footsore is an adjective meaning “Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-S-O-R-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does footsore mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of footsore

  • more footsore comparative
  • most footsore superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is footsore?

Footsore appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 footsore come from?

From foot + sore.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).