football

Other forms of football

plural

footballs·

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 football

What does football mean?

football means "any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in football?

football has 2 syllables: foot-ball. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊtˌbɔl/.

What is another word for football?

Close synonyms include football game. 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 football a common word?

football is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 football?

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