footwear
foot·wear/ˈfʊtwɛə(ɹ)/noun
footwear is spelled F-O-O-T-W-E-A-R: 8 letters and 2 syllables (foot·wear). It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, footwear means “Accesories or clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of footwear is footwears.
How many letters and syllables are in footwear?
| Letters | 8: F-O-O-T-W-E-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: foot·wear |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is footwear?
Footwear appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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).
How do you pronounce footwear?
- /ˈfʊtwɛə(ɹ)/
Footwear has 2 syllables, split foot·wear in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-footwear.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of footwear
- footwears plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does footwear mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Accesories or clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Footwear in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense item of clothing that is worn on the foot:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does footwear come from?
From foot + -wear.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).