Skip to main content

wielder

noun

wielder is spelled W-I-E-L-D-E-R: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wielder means “A person who wields something, especially power” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wielder is wielders.

How many letters and syllables are in wielder?

Letters7: W-I-E-L-D-E-R
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 68,248th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is wielder?

Wielder appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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).

Forms of wielder

  • wielders plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does wielder mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A person who wields something, especially power

  2. 2

    obsoleteA manager

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does wielder come from?

From wield + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after wielder