housewifery
/ˈhaʊswɪf(ə)ɹi/noun
housewifery is a noun meaning “The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-U-S-E-W-I-F-E-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of housewifery is housewiferies.
What does housewifery mean?
noun
- 1
datedThe state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills.
Meronym: housework
- 2
obsoleteSynonym of household goods.
Holonym: householdry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce housewifery?
- UK /ˈhaʊswɪf(ə)ɹi/
- UK /ˈhʌzɪfɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of housewifery
- housewiferies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is housewifery?
Housewifery appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does housewifery come from?
From Middle English huswyfery, huswyffrye, howswyfry, equivalent to housewife + -ry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).