Wafer
German, noun[ˈwɛɪ̯fɐ]
Wafer is spelled W-A-F-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 108,721st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wafer is a German masculine noun meaning “wafer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “runde, wenige 100 µm dicke Scheibe, auf der Halbleiterbauelemente durch verschiedene technische Verfahren…”.
What does Wafer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewafer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. runde, wenige 100 µm dicke Scheibe, auf der Halbleiterbauelemente durch verschiedene technische Verfahren hergestellt werden
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Wafer
- Wafers genitive
- Wafern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Wafer?
- [ˈwɛɪ̯fɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Wafer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wafer in German?
Wafer appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).