footwear

Other forms of footwear

plural

footwears·

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 footwear

What does footwear mean?

footwear means "clothing worn on a person's feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in footwear?

footwear has 2 syllables: foot-wear. The stress falls on "foot". In IPA it is /ˈfʊˌtwɛɹ/.

What is another word for footwear?

Close synonyms include footgear. 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 footwear a common word?

footwear 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 footwear?

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