# Wolfe

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #17,060

## Definitions
1. A surname transferred from the given name of English and German origin, a variant of Wolf.
2. An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States.

## Easily confused with
- **wore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-wore)
- **woof** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-woof)
- **wove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-wove)
- **worse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-worse)
- **Woolf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-woolf)
- **Wylie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-wylie)
- **wolves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolfe-vs-wolves)
- **woe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woe-vs-wolfe)
- **wife** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wife-vs-wolfe)
- **wolf** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wolf-vs-wolfe)
- **woke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/woke-vs-wolfe)
- **wold** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wold-vs-wolfe)
- **wale** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wale-vs-wolfe)
- **wile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wile-vs-wolfe)
- **whole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/whole-vs-wolfe)
- **Wilde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilde-vs-wolfe)

## Common misspellings (7)
`owlfe`, `wlofe`, `wofle`, `wolef`, `wolffe`, `wollfe`, `wwolfe`

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