footage

\fu.taʒ\

/\fu.taʒ\/ noun

The verdict

“footage” is uncommon French (frequency #95,919 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,919
frequency rank, French
3,276
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de mesurer une distance en pieds, ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-footage · footage · French

footage · rank #95,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,919
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,276
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fontanel

Nearest frequency peer: Fontanel (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « footage »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « footage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for footage
PropertyValue
Headwordfootage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fu.taʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,919
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « footage » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.footagetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Fontanel » (#95,918), « formalisées » (#95,920), « formosa » (#95,921). Parmi 3,276 lemmes en « F », « footage » est au #95,919. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

footage is uncommon French at frequency #95,919 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fu.taʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

footage has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is footage, spelled F-O-O-T-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de mesurer une distance en pieds, ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Images vidéo brutes non éditées, non montées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how footage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dans la suite de ce chapitre on utilisera indifféremment les termes footage ou métrage et prix du pied P_F ou prix du mètre Pₘ.
  2. Toutefois, Peter Jackson a présenté un footage au Comic-Con en 2D et 24is.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "footage"?
"footage" is spelled F-O-O-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fu.taʒ\.
What does "footage" mean?
As a noun, "footage" means: Action de mesurer une distance en pieds, ou résultat de cette action.
How do you pronounce "footage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "footage" is \fu.taʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "footage" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "footage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list