afoot

Other forms of afoot

comparative

afooter·

superlative

afootest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about afoot

What does afoot mean?

afoot means "traveling by foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in afoot?

afoot has 2 syllables: a-foot. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /əˈfʊt/.

What is another word for afoot?

Close synonyms include underway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is afoot a common word?

afoot is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with afoot?

7 words rhyme with afoot. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.