Foots

Foots is not the standard plural form for the body part known as a foot; in modern English, the usual plural is feet. The word foots can occur as a nonstandard plural in some dialects or older texts, but it is generally avoided in contemporary writing. Foots also exists as a verb form: to foot something means to pay or to add up, and in third-person singular present tense it appears as fo ots, as in “the company foots the bill.”

The human foot is the terminal part of the leg that bears weight and enables locomotion. Each foot consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, and a complex network of muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The arches—medial longitudinal, lateral longitudinal, and transverse—help distribute load and provide spring during walking and running. Common foot-related issues include sprains, plantar fasciitis, bunions, and arch problems, which can affect balance and mobility.

As a unit of length, the foot is defined as 12 inches or 0.3048 meters. In measurements, the plural form is feet (e.g., three feet); the plural foots is not used in this context. In poetry and linguistics, a foot is a basic metrical unit, with the plural typically feet, not foots.

In summary, foots is primarily a nonstandard plural and a verb form; the standard plural for the body part and for the unit of length is feet.