Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

household name

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English

Syllables: house-hold -name
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households.

noun

A genericized trademark.

noun

A very well-known public figure.

Example Sentences

"Instagram has revolutionized shopping, dealt a near-death blow to women’s magazines, taken celebrities from TV and movie screens to our fingertips and made Shih Tzus and personal trainers household names. (At least in some households.)"
"[Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list."

Inflected Forms

household names (plural)

Synonyms

household word

Questions

What does household name mean?: A brand name that is well known to the great majority of households.

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