barefooted

Questions about barefooted

What does barefooted mean?

barefooted means "without shoes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barefooted?

barefooted has 4 syllables: ba-re-foo-ted. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for barefooted?

Close synonyms include barefoot, shoeless, barefoot. 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 barefooted a common word?

barefooted is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.