Definition of foot

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• foot is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
• foot is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
• foot is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7

Definition of foot

• lowest support of a structure (noun)

  Examples

  1. he stood at the foot of the tower

  Synonyms

  1. base
  2. foundation
  3. fundament
  4. groundwork
  5. substructure
  6. understructure
• pay for something (verb)

  Examples

  1. foot the bill

  Synonyms

  1. pick
• (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. metrical foot
  2. metrical unit
• add a column of numbers (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. foot up
• the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint (noun)

  Examples

  1. armored from head to foot

  Synonyms

  1. human foot
  2. pes
• a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. ft
• any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. invertebrate foot
• walk (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. hoof
  2. hoof it
  3. leg it
• the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. animal foot
• an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot (noun)

  Examples

  1. there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot

  Synonyms

  1. infantry
• a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger (noun)
• a support resembling a pedal extremity (noun)

  Examples

  1. one foot of the chair was on the carpet
• the lower part of anything (noun)

  Examples

  1. curled up on the foot of the bed
  2. the foot of the page
  3. the foot of the list
  4. the foot of the mountain
• travel by walking (noun)

  Examples

  1. he followed on foot
  2. the swiftest of foot

See definition of foot in Merriam Webster