housewifely

1. 1.

   related or suited to a housewife

   “housewifely virtues”

   Similardomestic

Questions about housewifely

What does housewifely mean?

housewifely means "related or suited to a housewife".

How many syllables are in housewifely?

housewifely has 5 syllables and divides as hou-se-wi-fe-ly 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.

Is housewifely a common word?

housewifely is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.