wether
/ˈwɛðɚ/noun, verb
wether is spelled W-E-T-H-E-R: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “wether vs whether” about 30 times a month (Bing, United States). As a noun, wether means “A castrated goat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wether is wethers.
How many letters and syllables are in wether?
| Letters | 6: W-E-T-H-E-R |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 37,943rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is wether?
Wether appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd 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).
How do you pronounce wether?
- US /ˈwɛðɚ/
- UK /ˈwɛðə/
- Australia /ˈweðə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-whether.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with wether
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: weather, whether (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: weather.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with wether?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wether from its last stressed vowel (/ɛðəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of wether
- wethers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- wedder
- wethering participle, present
- wethered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wether mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A castrated goat.
- 2
A castrated ram.
verb
- 1
To castrate a male sheep or goat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wether in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Mönch, kastrierter Ziegenbock , Hammel, Schöps |
| Portuguese | castrão , carneiro castrado |
| Spanish | castrón , carnero castrado |
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 wether come from?
From Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“a wether, ram”), from Proto-West Germanic *weþru, from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).