Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

footless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables: foot-less
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without feet.

adj

Clumsy or inept.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"The snake is a footless creature."

Etymology

From Middle English fotles, from Old English *fōtlēas (only found as fēþelēas (“footless”)), from Proto-Germanic *fōtalausaz (“footless”), equivalent to foot + -less. Cognate with Dutch voetloos, German fußlos, Swedish fotlös, Icelandic fótalaus (“footless, legless”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: fotles, *fōtlēas, *fōtalausaz
Suffix: foot

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more footless (comparative) most footless (superlative)

Derived Forms

footlessly footlessness

Synonyms

apodal apodous feetless

Antonyms

skillful adroit

Questions

What does footless mean?: Without feet.
Where does footless come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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