footstep

Other forms of footstep

plural

footsteps·

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 footstep

What does footstep mean?

footstep means "the sound of a step of someone walking". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in footstep?

footstep has 2 syllables: foot-step. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊtˌstɛp/.

What is another word for footstep?

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

footstep 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 footstep?

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