stepford wife
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Parroting back her husband’s words, by the end of the play, Kate sounds either like a brainwashed member of a bizarre religious cult or a Stepford wife, a woman whose personality has been wiped out and replaced by one more acceptable to her husband."
- ""You can't just sit there and tell me you want Lili to become a 'Stepford wife' at your beck and call. […]"
- "So that prompted me to ask the question: isn’t the ideal Muslim wife in actual fact a Stepford Wife?"
Etymology
From the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (adapted into a 1975 film of the same name), in which a woman moves to the fictional town of Stepford, Connecticut and discovers its eerily docile housewives are android replacements.