footnote

Other forms of footnote

plural

footnotes·

past tense

footnoted·

present participle

footnoting·

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 footnote

What does footnote mean?

footnote means "a printed note placed below the text on a printed page". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in footnote?

footnote has 2 syllables: foot-note. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/.

What is another word for footnote?

Close synonyms include footer, annotate. 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 footnote a common word?

footnote 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.

What rhymes with footnote?

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