# wolf vs Wolfe

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### wolf
*noun · IPA /wʊlf/ · frequency rank #3,995*
Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.

### Wolfe
*name · frequency rank #17,060*
A surname transferred from the given name of English and German origin, a variant of Wolf.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolf-vs-wolfe