# forester

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #29,661

## Definitions
1. A person who practices forestry.
2. A person who lives in a forest.
3. Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.
4. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

## Easily confused with
- **foster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forester-vs-foster)
- **forever** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forester-vs-forever)
- **forests** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forester-vs-forests)
- **Forster** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forester-vs-forster)
- **fresher** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forester-vs-fresher)
- **forestry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forester-vs-forestry)
- **forest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forest-vs-forester)
- **fester** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fester-vs-forester)
- **foresee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foresee-vs-forester)
- **forested** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/forested-vs-forester)
- **foreseen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/foreseen-vs-forester)

## Common misspellings (12)
`fforester`, `foerster`, `foresetr`, `foresster`, `foresterr`, `forestre`, `forestter`, `foretser`, `forrester`, `forseter`, `froester`, `ofrester`

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