how to pronounce stepfather

/ˈstɛpˌfɑː.ðəɹ/

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stepfather is pronounced in three syllables

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stɛpfɑːðəɹ

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An example use of stepfather in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… her stepfather a salute from the entire …”

meanings of stepfather

noun:

  1. The husband of one's biological mother, other than one's biological father, especially following the divorce or death of the father.

stepfather frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word stepfather occurs in english on average 2.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics stepfather can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that stepfather can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

words with pronunciation similar to stepfather

stepmother

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