Wucherer
German, noun/ˈvuːxəʁɐ/
Wucherer is spelled W-U-C-H-E-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 71,199th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wucherer is a German masculine noun meaning “usurer (one who loans money at exorbitant interest rates), loan shark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Person oder Institution, der vorgeworfen wird, für eine Leistung (oft: Geldverleih) zu hohe Gegenleistungen…”.
What does Wucherer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineusurer (one who loans money at exorbitant interest rates), loan shark
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person oder Institution, der vorgeworfen wird, für eine Leistung (oft: Geldverleih) zu hohe Gegenleistungen zu verlangen
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 Wucherer
- Wucherers genitive
- Wucherin feminine
- Wucherern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Wucherer?
- /ˈvuːxəʁɐ/
- [ˈvuːxəʁɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Wucherer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Wucherer in German?
Wucherer appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).