foot-ton

1. 1.

   2240 foot-pounds

   Broaderwork unit

   Partsfoot-pound

Questions about foot-ton

What does foot-ton mean?

foot-ton means "2240 foot-pounds".

How many syllables are in foot-ton?

foot-ton has 2 syllables and divides as foot--ton under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is foot-ton a common word?

foot-ton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.