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say it: FUUT-print
footprint is a noun meaning "a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
“the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window”
a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
“the footprints of an earlier civilization”
the area taken up by some object
“the computer had a desktop footprint of 10 by 16 inches”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for footprint come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.