petfood
noun
petfood is a noun meaning “Food prepared for domestic pet animals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-T-F-O-O-D, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of petfood is petfoods.
What does petfood mean?
noun
- 1
Food prepared for domestic pet animals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of petfood
- petfoods plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is petfood?
Petfood appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Petfood in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense food prepared for domestic pet animals:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Tierfutter |
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 petfood come from?
From pet + food.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).