cuckoldom

1. 1.

   the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery

   Broadermarriage

Other forms of cuckoldom

plural

cuckoldoms·

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.

Questions about cuckoldom

What does cuckoldom mean?

cuckoldom means "the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery".

How many syllables are in cuckoldom?

cuckoldom has 3 syllables and divides as cuc-kol-dom under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.