dewormer
noun
dewormer is a noun meaning “Medicine used in deworming an animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-W-O-R-M-E-R, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dewormer is dewormers.
What does dewormer mean?
noun
- 1
Medicine used in deworming an animal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dewormer
- dewormers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dewormer?
Dewormer appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Dewormer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense medicine used in deworming an animal:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | desparasitante |
| Spanish | desparasitante |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does dewormer come from?
From deworm + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).