how to pronounce stepmother

/ˈstɛpˌmʌð.əɹ/

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stepmother is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… she maybe killed her stepmother and it …”

meanings of stepmother

noun:

A viola, especially Viola tricolor, heartsease.
The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.

stepmother frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word stepmother occurs in english on average 1.8 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 stepmother 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 stepmother can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) people, society, and culture;

words with pronunciation similar to stepmother

stepfather