Do You Say Foot Or Feet For Height?

Do you say foot or feet for height? This is a common way of saying, “I am 5 feet 6 inches tall.” However,

when the person's height is an exact number of feet –without inches — we use the plural form

. I am 5 feet. He is 6 feet tall.

Do you say 5 feet or 5 foot?

You're absolutely right about ‘five foot tall'; if you're talking to someone or writing and don't need to be formal, saying that you're ‘five foot tall' is fine. However,

to say you are ‘five feet tall' is correct and is probably safer when you're writing in English.

Do you say foot or feet?

The singular is obviously foot, and the plural is usually feet, but when you are using it as a compound modifier, you use the singular

. For example, you would say that Squiggly climbed a tree that was 10 feet tall. * But you don't say Squiggly ran up a 10-feet tree—you say Squiggly ran up a 10-foot tree.

Is it 8 foot or 8 feet?

Do you say 10 foot or 10 feet?

10 foot is informal. Many builders and tradespeople use it.

If you want to be formal, say 10 feet

. You will never be wrong if you say 10 feet.

Do you say 6 feet or 6 foot?

This is a common way of saying, “I am 5 feet 6 inches tall.” However,

when the person's height is an exact number of feet –without inches — we use the plural form

. I am 5 feet. He is 6 feet tall.

Is it 2 foot or 2 feet?

How do you write 6 feet tall?

Writing feet and inches in AP style

Always use figures before the measurement: for example, 4 inches, 9 feet, etc. Don't use hyphens when writing a person's height, except if it's describing them. Then you can write “

the six-foot-four man

”. Apostrophes are used to indicate feet and inches only in technical contexts.

Do you say 1 foot or 1 feet?

Well, “one” is singular, so the only possible choice is

one foot

.

Is it 20 feet or foot?

For your purposes,

use “feet”

. There are some weird rules regarding feet and foot. I remember looking into this when someone asked me to change “20-foot wide” to “20 feet wide”. Some references said either was considered correct, while others said only “foot” was correct.

Is it 12 foot or 12 feet?

Senior Member.

You use the singular when it's part of the name like a 6 foot sub

. A 6 foot sub is 6 feet long. A 12 foot truck is 12 feet long.

Why are feet called feet?

It is called a foot,

because it was originally based on the length of a foot

.

What is the use of feet?

A foot (one foot, two or more feet) is a body part on the end of a leg. It is used

when walking

. It is also important for balance: it helps people stand straight. People also use it to kick, in both fighting and sports, football being an example.

How do you pronounce height in feet?

Are foot and feet same?

Whilst foot refers to the single unit of measurement, ‘feet' is its plural alternative

. In this sense, the difference between foot and feet in Maths depends on how large the distance or length is that you are measuring.

How many feet are in a foot?

How is height written?

You can use numbers if you prefer—

“He was 5'2” and small for his age”—no spaces, and be sure to add the mark for inches

. There's no absolute right or wrong here. Styles vary with different publishers.

How do you write your height in 5 feet?

While writing “Height: 5 feet” you could abbreviate it as “

Height: 5′

“. To write “feet,” you must use the symbol “prime” which is a single quotation mark “ ‘ “. For inches you must use a double quotation mark “. “Length: 9 feet” you would abbreviate it as “Length: 9′ “.

What is the abbreviation for foot?

Is it 100 foot or 100 feet?

Which is correct: a 100-feet road or a 100-foot road? Grammatically

a 100-foot road is correct and a 100-feet road is incorrect

. In the phrase ‘a 100-foot road' the term ‘hundred-foot' acts as an adjective. In a numerical adjective the number is followed by a hyphen and a singular form of a noun.

What is foot plural?

plural

feet

ˈfēt also foot.

Why does America use feet?

An act of Congress in 1866 legalized the use of metric units across the U.S. That means

imperial-sounding measurements are actually derived from metric units

. So at that point, the foot became a fraction of a meter. The math works like this: 36 inches divided by 3 feet is a foot, or 12 inches.

What are feet called?

How do you pronounce height?

Is there such a word as height?

Heighth is a colloquial variant of height

formed by analogy with similar measurement terms such as length, breadth, width, and depth, which end in th. Heighth might be considered incorrect in formal writing, and no dictionaries that we know of list it as a living word.

How do I say my height and weight?

How do you write 5 feet?

There are two popular ways of writing feet: the abbreviation “ft.” or the single apostrophe (′). Inches can be represented using “in.” or with a double apostrophe (′′). As an example, five feet, ten inches could be written as

5 ft

.

How is 6 foot written?

If so, I think

6′1′′

(or 6 ft 1 in) is good. (Note the use of the prime and double prime symbols.)

Do you say foot long or feet long?

How do you write 5 feet 2 inches?