footing

Other forms of footing

plural

footings·

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 footing

What does footing mean?

footing means "status with respect to the relations between people or groups". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in footing?

footing has 2 syllables: foot-ing. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊtɪŋ/.

What is another word for footing?

Close synonyms include terms, basis, ground, foothold. 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 footing a common word?

footing 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.