foot vs feet : Common Errors in English

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About foot vs feet

You can use eight-foot boards to side a house, but “foot” is correctonly in this sort of adjectival phrase combined with a number (and usuallyhyphenated). The boards are eight feet (not foot) long. It’s always Xfeet per second and X feet away.

foot Meaning(s)

  • (n) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
  • (n) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
  • (n) the lower part of anything
  • (n) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
  • (n) lowest support of a structure
  • (n) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
  • (n) travel by walking
  • (n) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
  • (n) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
  • (n) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  • (n) a support resembling a pedal extremity
  • (v) pay for something
  • (v) walk
  • (v) add a column of numbers

feet Meaning(s)

  • (n) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
  • (n) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
  • (n) the lower part of anything
  • (n) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
  • (n) lowest support of a structure
  • (n) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
  • (n) travel by walking
  • (n) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
  • (n) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
  • (n) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  • (n) a support resembling a pedal extremity
  • (v) pay for something
  • (v) walk
  • (v) add a column of numbers
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