footrace

Other forms of footrace

plural

footraces·

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 footrace

What does footrace mean?

footrace means "a race run on foot".

How many syllables are in footrace?

footrace has 2 syllables: foot-race. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊˌtɹeɪs/.

What is another word for footrace?

Close synonyms include foot race, run. 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 footrace a common word?

footrace 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 footrace?

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