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footway

/ˈfʊtˌweɪ/noun

footway is a noun meaning “A passage reserved only for pedestrians” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-T-W-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of footway is footways.

What does footway mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A passage reserved only for pedestrians.

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

How do you pronounce footway?

  • /ˈfʊtˌweɪ/

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

Forms of footway

  • footways plural

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

How common is footway?

Footway appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 footway come from?

From Middle English fotwei, equivalent to foot + way. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foutwai, German Fußweg.

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