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say it: CHAHR-wuu-muhn
charwoman is a noun meaning "a human female employed to do housework". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɑɹwʊmən/ — CHAHR-wuu-muhn. It carries one recorded sense.
a human female employed to do housework
“the char will clean the carpet”
“I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for charwoman come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.