footing
French, noun/fu.tiŋ/
footing is spelled F-O-O-T-I-N-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,719th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Footing is a French masculine noun meaning “exercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marche ou course assez lente pour l’exercice ou l’entraînement physique”.
What does footing mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise)
- 2
colloquialmasculinefooting
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Marche ou course assez lente pour l’exercice ou l’entraînement physique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of footing
- footings plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce footing?
- /fu.tiŋ/
- \fu.tiŋ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to footing
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is footing in French?
footing appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).