wife
Definition of wife:
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part of speech: noun
Originally, a woman of mature age that is or might be married, and in common language often still so applied, esp. in Scotland; in literature used now only in compound words, generally designing a woman of low employment; as, alewife, fish- wife: the lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to man in the lawful bonds of wedlock- the correlative of husband, “ The husband of one wife.”- 1. Tim. iii 2; “ He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.”- Bacon; “ A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man, his angel and minister of graces innumerable, his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels."- Jer. Taylor.
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Common misspellings:
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- wite (0.6%)
- wifes (56.3%)
- perious (0.6%)
- wifr (1.1%)
- wifey (5.1%)
- ife (1.7%)
- vife (1.1%)
- wif (5.1%)
- wfe (2.8%)
- wift (1.7%)
- wi (0.6%)
- waife (1.1%)
- wird (0.6%)
- wifre (2.3%)
- wie (1.7%)
- wive (2.8%)
- sife (1.7%)
- wifer (1.1%)
- whife (2.8%)
- wifeand (0.6%)
- wiffe (1.1%)
- wofe (6.8%)
- wify (0.6%)
