footfall

Questions about footfall

What does footfall mean?

footfall means "the sound of a step of someone walking".

How many syllables are in footfall?

footfall has 2 syllables: foot-fall. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊtˌfɔl/.

What is another word for footfall?

Close synonyms include footstep, step. 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 footfall a common word?

footfall 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.

What rhymes with footfall?

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