Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hausfrau

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables: haus-frau
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traditional housewife.

Informal

noun

Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.

Example Sentences

"JoEllen is a dumpy small-town hausfrau trying to be good and stick to her bowl of dry salad, but unable to resist the call of the chocolate cake she keeps moving around from the icebox to the cupboard to the stove."
""I wouldn't have thought that Camille, of all people, who's so sort of peasant-earthy, like a hausfrau in Brueghel, would be such a fantasist, would you?" - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303)"

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Hausfrau.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

Hausfraus (plural) Hausfrauen (plural) house frau (alternative)

Questions

What does hausfrau mean?: A traditional housewife.
Where does hausfrau come from?: Unadapted borrowing from German Hausfrau.

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