# Wolfe vs Woolf

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### Woolf
*name · IPA /wʊlf/ · frequency rank #24,059*
A surname.

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